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agitato

noun, adverb, adjective

agitato is spelled A-G-I-T-A-T-O: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, agitato means “A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a restless agitated style” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of agitato is agitatos.

How many letters and syllables are in agitato?

Letters7: A-G-I-T-A-T-O
In writingabout once in every 30 million words; the 165,739th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is agitato?

Agitato appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of agitato

  • agitatos plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does agitato mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a restless agitated style.

  2. 2

    A passage having this mark.

adverb

  1. 1

    Played in a restless agitated style.

adjective

  1. 1

    Describing a passage having this mark.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Agitato in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense played in a restless agitated style:

LanguageWords
Frenchagitato
Portugueseagitato, agitado

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does agitato come from?

Borrowed from Italian agitato.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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