violoncello
/ˌvaɪələnˈt͡ʃɛloʊ/noun
violoncello is spelled V-I-O-L-O-N-C-E-L-L-O. The wrong spelling people search most is violincello: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Violoncello is a noun meaning “Synonym of cello”. The plural of violoncello is violoncellos or violoncelli.
How many letters and syllables are in violoncello?
| Letters | 11: V-I-O-L-O-N-C-E-L-L-O |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 9 million words; the 87,317th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, violincello, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell violoncello?
Violoncello is spelled V-I-O-L-O-N-C-E-L-L-O. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for violoncello in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is violoncello?
Violoncello appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 87,317th 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).
How do you pronounce violoncello?
- UK /ˌvaɪələnˈtʃɛləʊ/
- UK /ˌviːələnˈtʃɛləʊ/
- US /ˌvaɪələnˈt͡ʃɛloʊ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-violoncello.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with violoncello?
7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as violoncello from its last stressed vowel (/ɛloʊ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of violoncello
- violoncellos plural
- violoncelli plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does violoncello mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Synonym of cello.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does violoncello come from?
A borrowing of Italian violoncello (“little violone”), from violone (“an early form of the double bass”) + -cello (“-elle”, forming diminutives), violone itself being derived from viola + -one (“-oon”, forming augmentatives).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).