Dictionary Entry
syncopation
syncopation is a 11-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of syncopating; the contraction of a word by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; syncope. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 21 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of syncopating; the contraction of a word by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; syncope.
- 2noun
The act of syncopating; a peculiar figure of rhythm, or rhythmical alteration, which consists in welding into one tone the second half of one beat with the first half of the beat which follows.
- 3noun
music (especially dance music) that has a syncopated rhythm
- 4noun
a musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
- 5noun
(phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')
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