violoncelo
[bjolõnˈselo]
The verdict
“violoncelo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #80,598 among 1,793 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,598
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,793
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrumento musical de cuerda frotada, perteneciente a la familia del violín, y de tamaño y registro entre la viola y el contrabajo. Se toca frotando un arco con las cuerdas y con el instrumento su...
Corpus desk
Index ES-violoncelo · violoncelo · Spanish
violoncelo · rank #80,598 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,598
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,793
- PHOTO-FINISH vieux
Nearest frequency peer: vieux (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “violoncelo”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- viajaremos
viajaremos
19,407 corpus weight
- vibradores
vibradores
19,406 corpus weight
- vieux
vieux
19,404 corpus weight
- violoncelo
violoncelo
19,403 corpus weight
- Virginie
Virginie
19,402 corpus weight
- você
você
19,400 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “violoncelo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | violoncelo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bjolõnˈselo] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,598 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “violoncelo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
violoncelo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #80,598 among 1,793 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [bjolõnˈselo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Instrumento musical de cuerda frotada, perteneciente a la familia del violín, y de tamaño y registro entre la viola y el contrabajo. Se toca frotando un arco con las cuerdas y con el instrumento su...".
No misspelling variants are generated for violoncelo in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is violoncelo, spelled V-I-O-L-O-N-C-E-L-O.
Definition
- 1Instrumento musical de cuerda frotada, perteneciente a la familia del violín, y de tamaño y registro entre la viola y el contrabajo. Se toca frotando un arco con las cuerdas y con el instrumento sujeto entre las piernas del violonchelista.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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