autoharp
noun
autoharp is a noun meaning “A string instrument having a series of chord bars attached to dampers (muting bars) which mute all the strings other than those that form the desired…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-U-T-O-H-A-R-P, and it appears about once in every 33 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of autoharp is autoharps.
What does autoharp mean?
noun
- 1
A string instrument having a series of chord bars attached to dampers (muting bars) which mute all the strings other than those that form the desired chord.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of autoharp
- autoharps plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is autoharp?
Autoharp appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th 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).
Autoharp in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense instrument:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | autoharpe |
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 autoharp come from?
From auto- + harp.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).