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songspiel

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
songspiel
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An operatic musical drama in which spoken dialogue is interspersed with song.

Etymology

From German Songspiel, from Singspiel. First used by Kurt Weill in the title Mahagonny, ein Songspiel.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

songspiels (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

singspiel

Questions

What does songspiel mean?
An operatic musical drama in which spoken dialogue is interspersed with song.
Where does songspiel come from?
It is traced to German.

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