screlt
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To sing (something, especially high notes in musical theater) in a particular forceful way that combines screaming and belting.
Example Sentences
- "... screaming into the mike and you should not be screaming either. You should be turning up the heat on your emotions which creates power in your voice. It is very different from belting, “screlting,” or screaming. Think of it like a[…]"
- "... screlting (scream-belting) high notes over a loud pop / rock - based pit band may come to mind . But contemporary musical theatre covers so many different musical idioms and requires tremendous vocal dexterity . There is not one[…]"
- "Just feel like Chuck Schumer might get something done if the alternative was listening to 40 lightly pitchy people screlting Legally Blonde outside his office all day."
- "One note away from danger. Sort of like the last screlt in "Defying Gravity.""
- "[Anderson-Lopez:] I have a pretty big [singing] range and over the years I've learned to take my mix pretty high, so that's perhaps why we can be known to let the emotion of a song lead to some serious "screlts.". We're trying to get a little more mindful around voice parts in our most recent project. We were trying to write a little less rangy."