violon
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,766
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
violon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Luth à manche court dont la touche lisse est dépourvue de frettes, muni de quatre cordes que l’on frotte avec un archet. Pronounced \vjɔ.lɔ̃\. It ranks #9,766 in French word frequency. Often confused with viols and vison.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | violon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vjɔ.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for violon is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vjɔ.lɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,766 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for violon, with forms such as "ivolon", "viloon", and "viollon". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "viols", "vison", "vision", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is violon, spelled V-I-O-L-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Luth à manche court dont la touche lisse est dépourvue de frettes, muni de quatre cordes que l’on frotte avec un archet.
- 2Celui, celle qui joue du violon.
- 3Sorte de prison contiguë à un corps de garde ; dépôt pour les gardes à vue.
- 4Sorte de touret à main que l’on fait mouvoir à l’aide d’un archet.
- 5Cordelettes et planchettes que l’on dispose par mauvais temps le long des tables des navires pour retenir les assiettes, les verres, etc.
- 6Nom vernaculaire de Larix laricina, le mélèze laricin.
- 7Meuble représentant l’instrument de musique du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté en pal, manche vers le chef. À rapprocher de claricorde, guitare, harpe, luth, lyre et vièle.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ivolon,viloon,viollon,violno,violonn,viooln,voilon,vviolon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for violon
Misspelling Variants of "violon"
Frequency rank: #9,766 in French
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