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vac

/væk/noun, verb

vac is spelled V-A-C: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,789th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, vac means “Clipping of vacation (“extended period of time away from work or school”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of vac is vacs.

How many letters and syllables are in vac?

Letters3: V-A-C
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 30,789th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is vac?

Vac appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,789th 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).

How do you pronounce vac?

  • /væk/

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

Forms of vac

  • vacs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • vaccing participle, present
  • vacking participle, present
  • vacced participle, past
  • vacked participle, past

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

What does vac mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    informalClipping of vacation (“extended period of time away from work or school”).

  2. 2

    informalClipping of vacuum cleaner.

  3. 3

    Clipping of vacuum.

  4. 4

    informalClipping of vaccine.

verb

  1. 1

    To vacuum; to clean with a vacuum cleaner.

noun

as VAC
  1. 1

    Initialism of volt of alternating current.

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

Where does vac come from?

Abbreviations.

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

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