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vanpool

noun, verb

vanpool is a noun meaning “The transport of a pool of commuters in a shared van” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-N-P-O-O-L, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vanpool is vanpools.

What does vanpool mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The transport of a pool of commuters in a shared van.

verb

  1. 1

    To transport people in a vanpool.

  2. 2

    To be transported in a vanpool.

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

Forms of vanpool

  • vanpools plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • vanpooling participle, present
  • vanpooled participle, past

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

How common is vanpool?

Vanpool appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th 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 vanpool come from?

From van + pool.

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