accordion

ac·cord·i·on/əˈkoɹ.di.ən/noun, verb

accordion is spelled A-C-C-O-R-D-I-O-N, 4 syllables: ac·cord·i·on. The wrong spelling people search most is accordian: about 1,480 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Accordion is a noun meaning “A box-shaped musical instrument played by compressing or expanding its bellows while pressing its buttons or…”. The plural of accordion is accordions.

How many letters and syllables are in accordion?

Letters	9: A-C-C-O-R-D-I-O-N
Syllables	4: ac·cord·i·on
In writing	1.2 times per million words; the 25,751st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	2; the most searched, accordian, about 1,480 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Same letters	concordia

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell accordion?

Accordion is spelled A-C-C-O-R-D-I-O-N. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for accordion in either form.

accordionthe right spelling5,020 searches a month

accordiana in place of o1,480 searches a month

accordeone in place of i60 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is accordion?

Accordion appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 25,751st most frequent word form in the list.

accordion0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce accordion?

UK /əˈkɔː.diː.ən/
UK [əˈkɔː.dɪi̯.ən] ~ [əˈkɔː.dɪi̯.n̩]
US /əˈkoɹ.di.ən/

Accordion has 4 syllables, split ac·cord·i·on in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-accordion.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with accordion?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as accordion (/oɹdiən/).

Spelled with the same letters in another order: concordia.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of accordion

accordions plural, present, singular, he/she/it
accordioning participle, present
accordioned participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does accordion mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

1
A box-shaped musical instrument played by compressing or expanding its bellows while pressing its buttons or its keys, causing pallets to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel (reeds).
2
A vertical list of items that can be individually expanded and collapsed to reveal their contents.
3
Something, or set of things (concepts, etc), which can be expanded (or extended) and collapsed, like the musical instrument's pleated, folding bellows.
See also: telescoping

verb

1
To fold up, in the manner of an accordion