descant

descant is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song.
2. intransitive verb. The upper voice in part music.
3. intransitive verb. The canto, cantus, or soprano voice; the treble.
4. intransitive verb. A discourse formed on its theme, like variations on a musical air; a comment or comments.
5. intransitive verb. To sing a variation or accomplishment.
6. intransitive verb. To comment freely; to discourse with fullness and particularity; to discourse at large.
7. noun. a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody

   Synonyms: discant

8. verb. talk at great length about something of one's interest
9. verb. sing by changing register; sing by yodeling

   "The Austrians were yodeling in the mountains"

   Synonyms: warble, yodel

10. verb. sing in descant

Synonyms

discant, warble, yodel

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in descant:

decants, scanted

Common word forms

descants, descanted, descanter, descanting

Words from these letters

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