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tonalidad

Spanish, noun/tonaliˈdad/

tonalidad is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “tonality” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Sistema de sonidos que sirve de fundamento a una composición musical”.

What does tonalidad mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininetonality

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Sistema de sonidos que sirve de fundamento a una composición musical. 2. Sistema de colores y tonos. 3. Entonación. 4. Altura, tono.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of tonalidad

  • tonalidades plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce tonalidad?

  • /tonaliˈdad/
  • [t̪o.na.liˈð̞að̞]
  • [t̪onaliˈð̞að̞]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to tonalidad

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is tonalidad in Spanish?

tonalidad appears 1.6 times per million words in written Spanish.

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