hémiole
French, noun\ɛ.mjɔl\
hémiole is spelled H-É-M-I-O-L-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 95 million words in written French, the 304,757th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hémiole is a French masculine noun meaning “hemiola” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Insertion d’un rythme ternaire dans un binaire, ou inversement”.
What does hémiole mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehemiola
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Insertion d’un rythme ternaire dans un binaire, ou inversement. 2. Situation où deux mesures à trois temps sont interprétées comme étant trois mesures à deux temps (3 + 3 → 2 + 2 + 2), les notes accentuées n'étant alors pas sur les premiers temps des mesures, mais sur les premier et troisième temps de la première mesure, et sur le deuxième temps de la seconde mesure.
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 hémiole
- hémioles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hémiole?
- \ɛ.mjɔl\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is hémiole in French?
hémiole appears about once in every 95 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).