accordionist
/əˈkɔɹd.i.ə.nəst/noun
accordionist is a noun meaning “Someone who plays the accordion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-C-C-O-R-D-I-O-N-I-S-T and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of accordionist is accordionists.
What does accordionist mean?
noun
- 1
Someone who plays the accordion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce accordionist?
- US /əˈkɔɹd.i.ə.nəst/
Accordionist has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-PerfectSoundWhatever-accordionist.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of accordionist
- accordionists plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is accordionist?
Accordionist appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 118,441st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Accordionist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense player of the accordion:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | accordéoniste |
| German | Akkordeonspieler, Akkordeonspielerin, Akkordeonist, Akkordeonistin |
| Portuguese | acordeonista |
| Spanish | acordeonista |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does accordionist come from?
From accordion + -ist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).