Tom is having fun playing the Sonatina in C major with only the right hand raised a semitone.
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Semitone
//ˈsɛmitoʊn//
Synonyms for "semitone" (16 found)
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5 entriesTranslations
30 translations across 28 languages.
Basque
1 entries- tonuerdi noun (interval between adjacent keys)
Catalan
1 entries- semitò noun (interval between adjacent keys)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 半音 noun (interval between adjacent keys)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 半音 noun (interval between adjacent keys)
Czech
1 entries- půltón noun (interval between adjacent keys)
Danish
1 entries- halvtone noun (interval between adjacent keys)
Faroese
1 entries- hálvtóni noun (interval between adjacent keys)
Finnish
2 entries- puoliaskel noun (interval between adjacent keys)
- puolisävelaskel noun (interval between adjacent keys)
French
1 entries- demi-ton noun (interval between adjacent keys)
German
1 entries- Halbton noun (interval between adjacent keys)
Hebrew
1 entries- חצי־טון noun (interval between adjacent keys)
Hungarian
1 entries- félhang noun (interval between adjacent keys)
Icelandic
1 entries- hálftónn noun (interval between adjacent keys)
Italian
1 entries- semitono noun (interval between adjacent keys)
Japanese
1 entries- 半音 noun (interval between adjacent keys)
Khmer
1 entries- ជំហានពាក់កណ្តាល noun (interval between adjacent keys)
Māori
1 entries- waehaurua noun (interval between adjacent keys)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- halvtone noun (interval between adjacent keys)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- halvtone noun (interval between adjacent keys)
Persian
1 entries- نیمپرده noun (interval between adjacent keys)
Polish
1 entries- półton noun (interval between adjacent keys)
Portuguese
2 entries- meio-tom noun (interval between adjacent keys)
- semitom noun (interval between adjacent keys)
Romanian
1 entries- semiton noun (interval between adjacent keys)
Russian
1 entries- полуто́н noun (interval between adjacent keys)
Slovak
1 entries- poltón noun (interval between adjacent keys)
Slovene
1 entries- polton noun (interval between adjacent keys)
Spanish
1 entries- semitono noun (interval between adjacent keys)
Welsh
1 entries- hanner tôn noun (interval between adjacent keys)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.