violoncelle
\vjɔ.lɔ̃.sɛl\
The verdict
“violoncelle” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,601. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,601
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gros violon, au registre des notes plus basses, que le musicien tient verticalement entre ses jambes, et dont il frotte les cordes avec un archet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-violoncelle · violoncelle · French
violoncelle · rank #20,601 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,601
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vendredis
Nearest frequency peer: vendredis (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « violoncelle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vacant
vacant
79,403 corpus weight
- vega
vega
79,402 corpus weight
- vendredis
vendredis
79,401 corpus weight
- violoncelle
violoncelle
79,400 corpus weight
- visas
visas
79,399 corpus weight
- vitaux
vitaux
79,398 corpus weight
What this shows « violoncelle » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | violoncelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vjɔ.lɔ̃.sɛl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #20,601 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « violoncelle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around violoncelle (IPA \vjɔ.lɔ̃.sɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,601 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for violoncelle, with forms such as "ivoloncelle", "vilooncelle", and "violloncelle". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is violoncelle, spelled V-I-O-L-O-N-C-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Gros violon, au registre des notes plus basses, que le musicien tient verticalement entre ses jambes, et dont il frotte les cordes avec un archet.
- 2Violoncelliste, celui ou celle qui joue de cet instrument.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how violoncelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces braves gens avaient entendu le violon quelquefois, aux noces de leur village, mais ils n’avaient jamais vu de violoncelle et de contrebasse. — Qu’est-ce que c’est que ce gros violon ? dit l’enfant. — Ce doit être le père du petit violon, répondit le père sans se déconcerter. — Et celui-ci plus gros… gros comme un coffre ? — Celui-ci… c’est son grand-p…
Les innombrables heures que Rémy Bélanger a passées à pratiquer son violoncelle et son piano nous indiquent qu’il est sans doute assez passionné pour trouver un moyen de faire de la musique d’une manière ou d’une autre.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivoloncelle
- vilooncelle
- violloncelle
- violnocelle
- violocnelle
- violonccelle
- violoncele
- violoncelel
- violonclele
- violoneclle
- violonncelle
- vioolncelle
- voiloncelle
- vvioloncelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of violoncelle - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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