Home › Words › C › contrafagottocontrafagottocontrafagotto means contrabassoon.EtymologyFrom Italian contrafagotto.nouncontrabassoonDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.fagotto 77% match — The bassoon. vs contrafagotto →contrabassoon 71% match — A larger version of the bassoon sounding one octave lower, having a technique similar to the bassoon but offers more resistance in every way. vs contrafagotto →contrabassoonist 70% match — Someone who plays the contrabassoon. vs contrafagotto →contrabasso 70% match — The largest kind of bass viol. vs contrafagotto →fagot 67% match — A fagotto, or bassoon. vs contrafagotto →bassoon 62% match — A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and playing in the tenor and bass ranges. vs contrafagotto →contrabass 62% match — The part or section one octave lower than bass. vs contrafagotto →bassanello 62% match — A Renaissance double-reed woodwind instrument. vs contrafagotto →