violist
/ˈvaɪ.əl.ɪst/
"violist" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“violist” is uncommon English (frequency #97,685 among 7,391 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,685
- frequency rank, English
- 7,391
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A person who plays the viol.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | violist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈvaɪ.əl.ɪst/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,685 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “violist” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
violist is uncommon English at frequency #97,685 among 7,391 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈvaɪ.əl.ɪst/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person who plays the viol.".
No misspelling variants are generated for violist in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From viol + -ist. The correct English form is violist, spelled V-I-O-L-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1A person who plays the viol.
Etymology
From viol + -ist.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “violist”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is V-I-O-L-I-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.