vacant
/ˈveɪkənt/adjective
vacant is an adjective meaning “Not occupied; empty” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-C-A-N-T and has 2 syllables, and it appears 6.3 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does vacant mean?
adjective
- 1
Not occupied; empty.
a vacant room
- 2
rareNot present; absent.
- 3
Blank.
a vacant page
- 4
Showing no intelligence or interest.
a vacant stare
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vacant?
- /ˈveɪkənt/
Vacant 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: En-us-vacant.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of vacant
- more vacant comparative
- most vacant superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vacant?
Vacant appears 6.3 times per million words in written English, the 9,594th 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).
Vacant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | vide , niais |
| German | frei, vakant , leer, nichtssagend, ausdruckslos |
| Portuguese | vago |
| Spanish | vacante |
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 vacant come from?
From Old French vacant, from Latin vacāns.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).