Belcanto
German, noun/bɛlˈkanto/
Belcanto is spelled B-E-L-C-A-N-T-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 104,034th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Belcanto is a German masculine noun meaning “bel canto” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “von der italienischen Schule gepflegte gesangliche Vortragsweise, bei der die vollkommene Tongebung zur…”.
What does Belcanto mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebel canto
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. von der italienischen Schule gepflegte gesangliche Vortragsweise, bei der die vollkommene Tongebung zur Erzielung klangsinnlicher Schönheit im Vordergrund steht
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Belcanto
- Belcantos genitive
- Belkanto obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Belcanto?
- /bɛlˈkanto/
- [bɛlˈkanto]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Belcanto in German?
Belcanto appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).