glissando
French, noun\ɡli.sɑ̃n.do\
glissando is spelled G-L-I-S-S-A-N-D-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 44 million words in written French, the 209,747th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Glissando is a French masculine noun meaning “glissando” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Transition progressive, continue ou non, d’une note à une autre”.
What does glissando mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineglissando
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Transition progressive, continue ou non, d’une note à une autre.
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 glissando
- glissandos plural
- glissandi singular
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce glissando?
- \ɡli.sɑ̃n.do\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to glissando
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is glissando in French?
glissando appears about once in every 44 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).