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staccato

Portuguese, noun/staˈka.tɔ/

staccato is spelled S-T-A-C-C-A-T-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese, the 138,138th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Staccato is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “staccato (a style of playing short sharp notes)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does staccato mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinestaccato (a style of playing short sharp notes)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of staccato

  • staccati plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce staccato?

  • Portugal /staˈka.tɔ/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is staccato in Portuguese?

staccato appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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