Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

contrapuntist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: con-tra-pun-tist
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One skilled in counterpoint.

Example Sentences

"Now Counterpoint is certainly so much an Art , that to be , what they call , a learned Contrapuntist , is with Harmonists a title of no small excellence"

Etymology

From Italian contrappuntista.

Origin

Source language: Italian

Word Breakdown

Root: contrappuntista

Inflected Forms

contrapuntists (plural)

Questions

What does contrapuntist mean?: One skilled in counterpoint.
Where does contrapuntist come from?: It is traced to Italian.

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