vocaloid
/ˈvoʊkəloɪd/noun
vocaloid is spelled V-O-C-A-L-O-I-D: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 59,387th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, vocaloid means “An artificial singer (a voicebank, usually with an avatar) based on the Vocaloid engine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of vocaloid is vocaloids.
How many letters and syllables are in vocaloid?
| Letters | 8: V-O-C-A-L-O-I-D |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 59,387th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is vocaloid?
Vocaloid appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 59,387th 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 vocaloid?
- /ˈvoʊkəloɪd/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vocaloid
- vocaloids plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does vocaloid mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An artificial singer (a voicebank, usually with an avatar) based on the Vocaloid engine.
Vocaloid producers often own multiple vocaloids and use them together in a single song.
- 2
proscribedAny such artificial singer based on other singing voice synthesis software.
Kasane Teto is my favourite vocaloid!
- 3
Music that uses singing voice synthesizers (particularly those based on Vocaloid).
I love listening to vocaloid.
- 4
proscribedA voice synthesis software voicebank, regardless of musicality and presentation.
It was too expensive to hire voice actors for every employee training video, so now we use a vocaloid for the voiceover instead.
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of vocaloid (“music created using voice synthesis software, such as Vocaloid”).
- 2
Alternative letter-case form of vocaloid (“a voice synthesis software voicebank”).
- 3
Any singing voice synthesis software.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does vocaloid come from?
From Vocaloid, from Japanese VOCALOID(ボーカロイド) (bōkaroido), from English vocal + -oid.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).