diminuendo
French, noun/di.mi.nɥɛn.do/
diminuendo is spelled D-I-M-I-N-U-E-N-D-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 59 million words in written French, the 242,150th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Diminuendo is a French masculine noun meaning “diminuendo (a dynamic mark directing that a passage is to be played gradually more softly)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Marque de nuance pour indiquer qu'un passage doit être joué progressivement moins fort”.
What does diminuendo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinediminuendo (a dynamic mark directing that a passage is to be played gradually more softly)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Marque de nuance pour indiquer qu'un passage doit être joué progressivement moins fort. 2. Ce passage joué ainsi.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of diminuendo
- diminuendos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce diminuendo?
- /di.mi.nɥɛn.do/
- /di.mi.nɥɛ̃.do/
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is diminuendo in French?
diminuendo appears about once in every 59 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).