Viola da Gamba
[ˈvi̯oːla da ˈɡamba]
The verdict
“Viola da Gamba” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - historisches Streichinstrument mit fünf bis sieben Saiten, das beim Spielen zwischen den Beinen gehalten wird; kleinere Instrumente werden auf den Schoß gestellt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Viola da Gamba |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈvi̯oːla da ˈɡamba] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Viola da Gamba” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Viola da Gamba is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvi̯oːla da ˈɡamba]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "historisches Streichinstrument mit fünf bis sieben Saiten, das beim Spielen zwischen den Beinen gehalten wird; kleinere Instrumente werden auf den Schoß gestellt".
No misspelling variants are generated for Viola da Gamba in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Viola da Gamba, spelled V-I-O-L-A- -D-A- -G-A-M-B-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1historisches Streichinstrument mit fünf bis sieben Saiten, das beim Spielen zwischen den Beinen gehalten wird; kleinere Instrumente werden auf den Schoß gestellt
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Using “Viola da Gamba”
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- The one correct German spelling is V-I-O-L-A- -D-A- -G-A-M-B-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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