pizzicato
French, noun\pid.zi.ka.tɔ\
pizzicato is spelled P-I-Z-Z-I-C-A-T-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written French, the 129,327th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pizzicato is a French masculine noun meaning “pizzicato” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Il se dit des passages que l’on exécute en pinçant les cordes d’un instrument dont on joue ordinairement avec…”.
What does pizzicato mean in English?
adverb
- 1
pizzicato
noun
- 1
masculinepizzicato
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Il se dit des passages que l’on exécute en pinçant les cordes d’un instrument dont on joue ordinairement avec un archet.
adverb: 1. Manière de jouer un pizzicato.
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 pizzicato
- pizzicatos plural
- pizzicati plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pizzicato?
- \pid.zi.ka.tɔ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pizzicato
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pizzicato in French?
pizzicato appears about once in every 16 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).