vielle
/viˈɛl/noun
vielle is a noun meaning “A medieval stringed instrument similar to a violin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-E-L-L-E, and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vielle is vielles.
What does vielle mean?
noun
- 1
A medieval stringed instrument similar to a violin.
- 2
The hurdy-gurdy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vielle?
- /viˈɛl/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vielle
- vielles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vielle?
Vielle appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th 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).
Vielle in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense medieval stringed instrument:
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 vielle come from?
From Old French viele, vielle. Doublet of viola.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).