timbre
C1CEFR level
58/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
The distinctive character or quality of a sound that separates it from others of the same pitch.
You can tell a clarinet from an oboe by timbre alone, even when they play the same note.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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