violon
noun
violon is a noun meaning “A kind of organ stop producing a string-like sound” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-O-L-O-N, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of violon is violons.
What does violon mean?
noun
- 1
A kind of organ stop producing a string-like sound.
- 2
The largest kind of bass viol.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of violon
- violons plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is violon?
Violon appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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 violon come from?
Borrowed from French violon (“violin”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).