aquarelle
noun
aquarelle is a noun meaning “A watercolour (painting)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-Q-U-A-R-E-L-L-E, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of aquarelle is aquarelles.
What does aquarelle mean?
noun
- 1
A watercolour (painting)
- 2
A printed picture coloured by the application of watercolour through stencils, using a different stencil for each colour.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of aquarelle
- aquarelles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is aquarelle?
Aquarelle appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th 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).
Aquarelle in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense painting – see also watercolour:
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 aquarelle come from?
Unadapted borrowing from French aquarelle, from obsolete Italian acquarella (“watercolour”) (later acquarello and acquerello).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).