Word.ws English Dictionary

pralltriller

pralltriller noun: a melodic embellishment consisting of the quick alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone above it, usually the next in the scale.

Noun

pralltriller (plural pralltrillers)

  1. A melodic embellishment consisting of the quick alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone above it, usually the next in the scale.
    • Coordinate term: mordent

Forms of pralltriller

pluralpralltrillers

Origin of pralltriller

Borrowed from German Pralltriller.

Questions about pralltriller

What does pralltriller mean?
Pralltriller means a melodic embellishment consisting of the quick alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone above it, usually the next in the scale.
What part of speech is pralltriller?
Pralltriller is a noun.
What is the plural of pralltriller?
The plural of pralltriller is pralltrillers.

Words near pralltriller in the dictionary

  1. praline
  2. pralines
  3. Prall
  4. prallethrin
  5. Pralls
  6. pralltriller
  7. pralltrillers
  8. pralmorelin
  9. pralnacasan
  10. pralsetinib
  11. pram

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pralltriller (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pralltriller.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pralltriller. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.