Viyella
noun
Viyella is a noun meaning “A blend of 55% merino wool and 45% cotton in a twill weave” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-Y-E-L-L-A and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Viyella is Viyellas.
What does Viyella mean?
noun
- 1
A blend of 55% merino wool and 45% cotton in a twill weave.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Viyella?
Viyella has 3 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 Viyella
- Viyellas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Viyella?
Viyella appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd 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 Viyella come from?
From Via Gellia, name of a valley road near Matlock, where in 1890 Hollins & Co acquired a mill used for the early production of the material. The word was registered as a trademark in 1894.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).