songcraft
song·craft/ˈsɔŋkɹæft/noun
songcraft is a noun meaning “The practice or skill of crafting or composing songs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-O-N-G-C-R-A-F-T and has 2 syllables (song·craft), and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does songcraft mean?
noun
- 1
The practice or skill of crafting or composing songs.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce songcraft?
- UK /ˈsɒŋkɹɑːft/
- US /ˈsɔŋkɹæft/
- US /sɑŋ-/
Songcraft has 2 syllables, split song·craft in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-songcraft.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is songcraft?
Songcraft appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th 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 songcraft come from?
From song + -craft, sometimes after Old English sangcræft (“singing, poetry; music”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).