fingerstyle
noun
fingerstyle is a noun meaning “A style of playing a stringed instrument, such as a guitar, which includes the use of the fingers to pluck the strings instead of a pick, or plectrum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-N-G-E-R-S-T-Y-L-E, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fingerstyle is fingerstyles.
What does fingerstyle mean?
noun
- 1
A style of playing a stringed instrument, such as a guitar, which includes the use of the fingers to pluck the strings instead of a pick, or plectrum.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fingerstyle
- fingerstyles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fingerstyle?
Fingerstyle appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th 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).
Where does fingerstyle come from?
From finger + style.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).