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volume

UK /ˈvɒl.juːm/noun, verb

volume is spelled V-O-L-U-M-E. The wrong spelling people search most is volumne: about 250 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 196 of all searches for the word. Volume is a noun meaning “A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units…”. The plural of volume is volumes.

How many letters and syllables are in volume?

Letters6: V-O-L-U-M-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing58 times per million words; the 1,793rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, volumne, about 250 Bing searches a month (all of them)

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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).

How do you spell volume?

Volume is spelled V-O-L-U-M-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 197 of the searches for volume in either form.

volumethe right spelling49,090 searches a month
volumnean extra n250 searches a month

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 volume?

Volume appears 58 times per million words in written English, the 1,793rd 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 volume?

  • UK /ˈvɒl.juːm/
  • UK /ˈvɒl.jʊm/
  • British /ˈvɔljʉwm/

Volume has 2 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-volume.wav, En-us-volume.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of volume

  • volumes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • vol.
  • voluming participle, present
  • volumed participle, past

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

What does volume mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English measurement.

    The room is 9×12×8, so its volume is 864 cubic feet.

  2. 2

    Strength of sound: how loud it is.

    Please turn down the volume on the stereo.

  3. 3

    The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.

    I looked at this week's copy of the magazine. It was volume 23, issue 45.

  4. 4

    A bound book.

  5. 5

    A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.

    The letter "G" was found in volume 4.

  6. 6

    A great amount (of meaning) about something.

  7. 7

    obsoleteA roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.

  8. 8

    Quantity.

    The volume of ticket sales decreased this week.

verb

  1. 1

    To be conveyed through the air, waft.

  2. 2

    To cause to move through the air, waft.

  3. 3

    To swell.

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

How do you abbreviate volume?

Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of volume: PVT, vol, vol..

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

Volume in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchvolume (three-dimensional measure of space), tome (single book of a publication issued in…)
GermanRauminhalt, Volumen (three-dimensional measure of space), Band (single book of a publication issued in…), Lautstärke (strength of sound), Jahrgang (issues of a periodical over a period of one year), Partition (computing: accessible storage area with a…)
Portuguesevolume (three-dimensional measure of space), tomo (single book of a publication issued in…)
Spanishvolumen (three-dimensional measure of space), volumen sónico, volumen acústico (strength of sound)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does volume come from?

From Middle English volume, from Old French volume, from Latin volūmen (“book, roll”), from volvō (“roll, turn about”).

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

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