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Definition: Staccato |
StaccatoAdjective1. Marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; (music) cut short crisply; "staccato applause"; "a staccato command"; "staccato notes". Adverb1. Separating the notes; in music; "play this staccato, please". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "staccato" was first used: 1724. (references) |
Etymology: Staccato \Stac*ca"to\, adjective. [Italian expression, past participle of staccere, equivalent to distaccare. See Detach.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: StaccatoSynonym: disconnected (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: legato (adv). (additional references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Staccato."
Crosswords: Staccato |
| English words defined with "staccato": disconnected, Double-tonguing ♦ pizzicato. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "staccato": Charcot triad, Charcot's triad ♦ Positive CG. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Staccato" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (staccato), French (staccato), German (staccato), Hungarian (staccato), Italian (staccato), Portuguese (staccato), Spanish (staccato), Swedish (staccato). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Staccato (1959) | |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Staccato bass with melodic flute and quena creating a safari ambient texture. | | Single staccato melody performed on a piano. |
| A staccato clarinet note. | | Low bongo drum being hit in a staccato manner. |
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| "Staccato" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Staccato" is used about 113 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 113 | 30,464 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "staccato": staccato vs legato. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "staccato": staccato-like. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
staccato | 49 |
font staccato | 5 |
communication staccato | 5 |
kohler staccato | 4 |
font free staccato | 4 |
drum staccato | 3 |
555 staccato | 3 |
222 bt staccato | 2 |
kohler sink staccato | 2 |
222 staccato | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "staccato"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | stakato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | التقطع مقطع موسيقي متقطع, شىء متقطع. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стакато. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | staccato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | staccato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | abgehackt (chopped, choppily, choppy, clipped). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοφτόσ (curt), διακεκομμένοσ (discontinuous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szaggatottan (discursively, in a staccato voice, jerkily, spasmodically), staccato, szaggatott (discursive, intermittent, jerky, rugged). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | staccato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 歯切れの良い (crisp), スケ番 (bar, energy, free-standing bar, grandstand play, grandstanding, leader of a female gang, road reflector, scoop, scope, scoping, scopophilia, score, scoreboard, scorebook, scorecard, scorer, scoring position, Scotch, Scotch egg, Scotch tape, Scotch terrier, Scotch tweed, Scotch whiskey, Scotland, Scotland Yard, scotophobin, Scott, shovel, Skopolamin, skunk, spade, squall, squawker, stability, stabilizer, stack, stacking permanent wave, stack-object, stack-pointer, stackware, stadium, stadium jumper, staff, stag film, stag party, stagflation, Stalinism, stamina, stamp, stamp collection, stance, stand, standard, standard number, standards, standby, standby passenger, stand-in, standing start, standing wave, standoff, standpoint, stand-up collar, Stanford, stanza, star, star guide, star king, star player, star sapphire, star system, Star Trek, Star Wars, Star Watching, starch, stardom, stardust, staring lineup, starlet, starlight, Stars and Stripes, start, start dash, start line, starter, starting block, starting member, starting pitcher, static, statistics, statue, Sterling block, Sterling engine, stout, stub, studio, studless tire, study, stuff, stuffed egg, stun, stun gun, stunt car, stunt man, style, style file, stylebook, styling, stylish, stylist, stylus, stymie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | スタッカート , はぎれのよい (crisp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | staddagh (static), dy staddagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | accatostay staccato, interrupto, destacado (detached). (various references) стаккато (stacatto). (various references) stakato. (various references) staccato. (various references) staccato. (various references) ซึ่งขา"ตอน. (various references) kesik kesik (brokenly, by jerks, by snatches, in snatches, intermittent, intermittently), kısa ve güçlü olarak. (various references) стакато. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | praecisa, praecisam, praecisi, praecisum. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | destachier. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "staccato": staccatos. (additional references) | |
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"Staccato" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ccaccat, Ccaccatg, snackette, stacato, stacatto, staccatto, staccotto, stuccato, stuccatto. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "staccato" (pronounced stukÄ"tō') |
| 3 | -Ä" t ō' | grotto, legato, Lotto, ostinato, Otto. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: stoccata, toccatas. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-o-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: toccata. | |
-2 letters: accost, cacaos, coacts, cottas. | |
-3 letters: ascot, cacao, cacas, coact, coast, coats, cocas, costa, cotta, scatt, stoat, tacos, tacts, toast. | |
-4 letters: acta, acts, caca, casa, cast, cats, coat, coca, cost, cots, oast, oats, ocas, scat, scot, stat, stoa, taco, tact, taos, tats, tost, tots. | |
-5 letters: aas, act, att, cat, cos, cot, oat, oca, sac. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-o-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: staccatos, stoccatas. | |
+2 letters: catatonics, cocatalyst. | |
+3 letters: accountants, cataractous, cocatalysts, stratocracy. | |
+4 letters: acceptations, aristocratic, catastrophic, catholicates, coarctations, concatenates, cosurfactant. | |
+5 letters: accentuations, accustomation, capacitations, contraoctaves, cosurfactants, ectoparasitic, pantisocratic, sacrosanctity, scholasticate, stratocracies, transthoracic. | |
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