vade
/veɪd/obsolete
vade is a verb meaning “To fade; to vanish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-D-E, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does vade mean?
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo fade; to vanish.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vade?
- /veɪd/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-vade.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of vade
- vades present, singular, he/she/it
- vading participle, present
- vaded participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vade?
Vade appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 117,098th 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 vade come from?
Alteration of fade.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).