viole
obsolete
viole is a verb meaning “To violate, especially to rape” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-O-L-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does viole mean?
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo violate, especially to rape.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce viole?
Viole has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of viole
- violes present, singular, he/she/it
- violing participle, present
- violed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is viole?
Viole appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th 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 viole come from?
From Middle English vyole, from either Middle French violer or Latin violāre. Compare violate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).