legato
French, noun
legato is spelled L-E-G-A-T-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 102,288th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Legato is a French masculine noun meaning “legato” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, légato is a different word: “legato”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mis en tête d’un passage, indique qu’il faut en lier les notes”.
What does legato mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelegato
adverb
- 1
legato
noun
- 1
masculinelegato
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mis en tête d’un passage, indique qu’il faut en lier les notes.
adverb: 1. De façon liée, continûment.
noun: 1. Didascalie musicale indiquant que le phrasé doit être lié. 2. Manière de jouer les notes pour obtenir une liaison des notes successives en un seul mouvement continu.
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 legato
- legatos plural
- légatos plural
- légato
- legato
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to legato
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is legato in French?
legato appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).