sfumato
French, noun\sfy.ma.to\
sfumato is spelled S-F-U-M-A-T-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 41 million words in written French, the 202,924th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sfumato is a French masculine noun meaning “sfumato” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Technique de peinture consistant en la superposition de plusieurs couches de peinture extrêmement fines et…”.
What does sfumato mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesfumato
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Technique de peinture consistant en la superposition de plusieurs couches de peinture extrêmement fines et translucides, destinées à rendre un arrière-plan évanescent, donnant ainsi de la profondeur de champ.
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 sfumato
- sfumatos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sfumato?
- \sfy.ma.to\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sfumato
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sfumato in French?
sfumato appears about once in every 41 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).