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voicebox

noun

voicebox is a noun meaning “larynx” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-O-I-C-E-B-O-X, and it appears about once in every 37 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of voicebox is voiceboxes.

What does voicebox mean?

noun

  1. 1

    colloquiallarynx

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of voicebox

  • voiceboxes plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is voicebox?

Voicebox appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd 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 voicebox come from?

From voice + box.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).