# trombone

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˌtɹɒmˈbəʊn/ · frequency rank #30,263

## Definitions
1. A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).
2. The common European bittern.
3. A kind of extendable support for attaching lighting elements to a set.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Italian trombone, from tromba (“trumpet”) + -one (augmentative), literally “large trumpet”.
The telecommunications sense alludes to the shape of the musical instrument.

## Common misspellings (12)
`rtombone`, `tormbone`, `trmobone`, `trobmone`, `trombbone`, `trombnoe`, `tromboen`, `trombonne`, `trommbone`, `tromobne`, `trrombone`, `ttrombone`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/trombone