vibraphone
/ˈvɑɪ.bɹəˌfəʊn/noun
vibraphone is a noun meaning “A percussion instrument with a double row of tuned metal bars, each above a tubular resonator containing a motor-driven rotating vane, giving a…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-B-R-A-P-H-O-N-E, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vibraphone is vibraphones.
What does vibraphone mean?
noun
- 1
A percussion instrument with a double row of tuned metal bars, each above a tubular resonator containing a motor-driven rotating vane, giving a vibrato effect.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vibraphone?
- /ˈvɑɪ.bɹəˌfəʊn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-vibraphone.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of vibraphone
- vibraphones plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vibraphone?
Vibraphone appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th 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).
Vibraphone in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense percussion instrument:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | vibraphone |
| German | Vibraphon |
| Portuguese | vibrafone |
| Spanish | vibráfono |
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 vibraphone come from?
From vibra(to) + -phone.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).