I played the accordion.
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Accordion
/əˈkɔ(ɹ).diˌən/
Synonyms for "accordion" (13 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (3)
Noun(3 words)
Strong matches (4)
Noun(4 words)
Related words (6)
Noun(6 words)
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Choosing the right synonym
- Closest matches in this entry: squeeze box, accordion widget, bellows, collapsible section, concertinas.
- Sentence evidence is available for accordion, so synonym choice can be checked against real usage rather than a flat word list.
- Ranking signals come from wordnet, opengloss, derived_reverse.
Synonym selection checklist
- Match the part of speech before comparing meanings.
- Check whether the synonym changes intensity, formality, or emotional tone.
- Read the replacement inside the full sentence, not just beside "accordion".
- Prefer the clearest word over the most unusual word when writing for speed or comprehension.
When not to replace "accordion"
Keep "accordion" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.
If two options seem close, choose the one that best matches the audience and purpose of the sentence.
Replacement workflow
1. Preserve meaning
Choose a synonym only if it keeps the core idea of "accordion" intact in the sentence you are editing.
2. Tune tone
Check whether the replacement sounds more formal, casual, emotional, technical, or forceful than the original word.
3. Re-read context
Read the full sentence after the swap. Keep the synonym only when the sentence becomes clearer or more precise.
Review note: Synonym lists are ranked with lexical data and reviewed for practical writing value. Use the comparison notes, sentence evidence, and source labels together; a high-ranking synonym can still be wrong when the audience, register, or grammar changes.
Final fit check
After choosing a replacement for "accordion", read the sentence once for meaning and once for rhythm. The best synonym should feel natural in the full sentence, not only accurate in a word list.
If the synonym makes the sentence slower, vaguer, or more dramatic than intended, keep "accordion" or choose a simpler alternative from the closest-match group.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
6 entriesfree-reed instrumentkeyboard instrumentmechanical componentmusical instrumentoffice supplyuser interface element
More specific
9 entriescardboard accordion folderchromatic accordiondiatonic accordionflexible ducthorizontal accordionmetal bellowspiano accordionplastic accordion foldervertical accordion
Collocations
6 entriesaccordion fileaccordion folderaccordion musicchromatic accordiondiatonic accordionpiano accordion
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
1 entriesTranslations
143 translations across 86 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- akkordeon noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- trekklavier noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Albanian
1 entries- fizarmonikë noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Amharic
1 entries- አኮርዲዮን noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Arabic
1 entries- أَكُورْدِيُون noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Armenian
1 entries- ակորդեոն noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Asturian
1 entries- acordión noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- akkordeon noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Basque
2 entries- akordeoi noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- eskusoinu noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Belarusian
1 entries- акардэо́н noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Bengali
2 entries- অ্যাকর্ডিয়ন noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- বাদ্যযন্ত্রবিশেষ noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Breton
1 entries- akordeon noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Bulgarian
2 entries- акордео́н noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- хармо́ника noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Burmese
1 entries- အကော်ဒီယံ noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Catalan
1 entries- acordió noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Chinese
1 entries- 手風琴 /手风琴 noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 手風琴 /手风琴 noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 手風琴 /手风琴 noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Czech
2 entries- akordeon noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- harmonika noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Danish
3 entries- akkordeon noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- harmonika noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- trækharmonika noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Dutch
2 entries- accordeon noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- harmonica noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Esperanto
1 entries- akordiono noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Estonian
2 entries- akordion noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- lõõtspill noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Faroese
1 entries- harmonika noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Finnish
3 entries- haitari noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- hanuri noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- harmonikka noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
French
1 entries- accordéon noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Galician
1 entries- acordeón noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Georgian
1 entries- აკორდეონი noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
German
4 entries- Akkordeon noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- Handharmonika noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- Handorgel noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- Quetsche noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Greek
1 entries- ακορντεόν noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Hebrew
1 entries- אָקּוֹרְדִּיּוֹן noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Hindi
1 entries- अकॉर्डियन noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Hungarian
2 entries- harmonika noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- tangóharmonika noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Ido
1 entries- akordeono noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Indonesian
1 entries- akordeon noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Interlingua
1 entries- accordion noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Irish
2 entries- acordán noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- cairdín noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Italian
1 entries- fisarmonica noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Japanese
2 entries- アコーデオン noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- 手風琴 noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Kazakh
1 entries- аккордеон noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Khmer
1 entries- អគ័រដេអុង noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Korean
2 entries- 수풍금 noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- 아코디언 noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- аккордеон noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Latin
1 entries- accordio noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Latvian
1 entries- akordeons noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Lithuanian
1 entries- akordeonas noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Macedonian
3 entries- акордео́н noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- армоника noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- хармоника noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Malay
2 entries- akordion noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- tetarik noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Manx
1 entries- coardeen noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Mongolian
3 entries- аккордеон noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- баян хуур noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- ᠪᠠᠶᠠᠨ ᠬᠤᠭᠤᠷ noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Māori
1 entries- kōriana noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Norman
1 entries- accordéon noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- akordiyon noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- akkordeon noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- dragspell noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- dragspill noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- harmonika noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Norwegian Nynorsk
4 entries- akkordeon noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- dragspel noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- harmonika noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- trekkharmonika noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Nǀuu
1 entries- treklefirsi noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Pashto
1 entries- اکوردیون noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Persian
1 entries- آکاردئون noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Polish
2 entries- akordeon noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- harmonia ręczna noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Portuguese
3 entries- acordeão noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- gaita noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- sanfona noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Romanian
1 entries- acordeon noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Russian
4 entries- аккордео́н noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- бая́н noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- гармо́ника noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- гармо́нь noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- bogsa-ciùil noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- harmònika noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- хармо̀ника noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Skolt Sami
1 entries- garmaan noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Slovak
2 entries- akordeón noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- harmonika noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Slovene
1 entries- harmọ́nika noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Southern Altai
1 entries- кагас комыс noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Spanish
1 entries- acordeón noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Swahili
2 entries- harimuni noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- kodiani noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Swedish
4 entries- ackordeon noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- ackordion noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- bälgaspel noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- dragharmonika noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Tagalog
2 entries- akordeyon noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- akurdyon noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Tajik
1 entries- аккордеон noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Thai
3 entries- หีบเพลง noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- หีบเพลงชัก noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- แอกคอร์เดียน noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Tibetan
1 entries- ལག་སྦྲེང noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Turkish
1 entries- akordiyon noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Turkmen
1 entries- akkordeon noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Tuvan
1 entries- аккордеон noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Ukrainian
2 entries- акордео́н noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- гармо́нія noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Uyghur
1 entries- ئاككوردىيون noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Uzbek
1 entries- akkordeon noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Vietnamese
2 entries- phong cầm noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- đàn xếp noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Volapük
1 entries- tiraharmonöm noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Welsh
2 entries- acordion noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
- cordion noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Wu Chinese
1 entries- 手風琴 /手风琴 noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Yakut
1 entries- аккордеон noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Yiddish
1 entries- אַקאָרדעאָן noun (a small, portable, keyed wind instrument)
Sample sentences
22 total sentences available.
Tom played the accordion while Mary danced.
Source: tatoeba (1028208)
Tom finally talked Mary into lending him her accordion.
Source: tatoeba (1028936)
Tom plays accordion quite well.
Source: tatoeba (2050616)
Showing 4 of 22 available sentences.
Common questions
What are the closest synonyms for "accordion"?
Closest matches include squeeze box, accordion widget, bellows, collapsible section, concertinas.
How should I check whether a synonym fits "accordion"?
Compare the replacement against real sentence context. This entry includes sample sentences so you can check tone, grammar, and meaning before swapping words.