vale
/veɪl/noun, interjection
vale is spelled V-A-L-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 4.2 times per million words in written English, the 12,578th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “vale vs veil” about 110 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, vale means “A valley” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of vale is vales.
How many letters and syllables are in vale?
| Letters | 4: V-A-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.2 times per million words; the 12,578th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is vale?
Vale appears 4.2 times per million words in written English, the 12,578th 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 vale?
- /veɪl/
- [veɪɫ]
As an interjection (“Farewell”): /ˈvɑːleɪ/.
Vale has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-vale.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-vale_(farewell).wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with vale
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: vail, veil (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with vale?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as vale.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: veal, eval, lave, leva, avel.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of vale
- vales plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does vale mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A valley.
interjection
- 1
Farewell.
Vale, Sarah Smith
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does vale come from?
From Middle English vale, from Old French val (“valley”), from Latin vallis, valles. Displaced native Old English dell.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).