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viognier

/ˌvi.oʊnˈjeɪ/noun

viognier is a noun meaning “A type of white wine-producing grape originally grown in the Rhône valley” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-O-G-N-I-E-R and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of viognier is viogniers.

What does viognier mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A type of white wine-producing grape originally grown in the Rhône valley.

  2. 2

    A white wine made chiefly from viognier grapes.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce viognier?

  • US /ˌvi.oʊnˈjeɪ/
  • UK /ˌviː.ɒnˈjeɪ/

Viognier has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of viognier

  • viogniers plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is viognier?

Viognier appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st 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).

Where does viognier come from?

Borrowed from French viognier.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).