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vacat

phrase

vacat is a phrase meaning “Indicates a willingly empty portion of an inscription” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-C-A-T, and it appears about once in every 91 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does vacat mean?

phrase

  1. 1

    Indicates a willingly empty portion of an inscription.

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

Forms of vacat

  • vac.

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

How common is vacat?

Vacat appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th 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 abbreviate vacat?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of vacat: vac..

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

Where does vacat come from?

Unadapted borrowing from Latin vacat (“it is empty”).

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