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vine

/ˈvaɪ̯n/noun

vine is a noun meaning “Any plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-N-E and has one syllable (vine), and it appears 5.4 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vine is vines.

What does vine mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining.

  2. 2

    Any plant the stem of which creeps along the ground.

  3. 3

    A stem of such plants, especially when thick and rope-like; a liana.

  4. 4

    UKA climbing plant that produces grapes.

    They picked the grapes off the vine.

  5. 5

    Any plant of the genus Vitis.

noun

as Vine
  1. 1

    A looping video clip of a few seconds in duration, frequently used on social media.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce vine?

  • /ˈvaɪ̯n/
  • [ˈvaɪ̯n]

Vine has one syllable, split vine in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-vine.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-Vine.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of vine

  • vines plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is vine?

Vine appears 5.4 times per million words in written English, the 10,680th 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).

Vine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Spanishvid, parra, labrusca, parriza, parrón, cepa (any plant of the genus Vitis)
Frenchgrimpante (any similar climbing or trailing plant)
GermanKletterpflanze, Ranke, Schlingpflanze (any similar climbing or trailing plant)
Portuguesecipó (any similar climbing or trailing plant)

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 vine come from?

From Middle English vyne, from Anglo-Norman vigne, from Vulgar Latin vīnia, from Latin vīnea (“vines in a vineyard”), from vīneus (“related to wine”), from vīnum (“wine”), from Proto-Italic *wīnom, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom (“vine, wine”), from *weh₁y- (“to twist, wrap”). Doublet of wine.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).