vacance
/vəˈkæns/obsolete
vacance is a noun meaning “A vacation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-C-A-N-C-E, and it appears about once in every 93 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vacance is vacances.
What does vacance mean?
noun
- 1
obsoleteA vacation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vacance?
- /vəˈkæns/
- /vəˈkɑns/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vacance?
Vacance appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd 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).
Where does vacance come from?
From Middle French vacance, from Medieval Latin vacantia. Doublet of vacancy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).