Vantablack
noun, adjective
Vantablack is a noun meaning “A class of super-black coatings that absorb almost all light” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-N-T-A-B-L-A-C-K, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Vantablack is Vantablacks.
What does Vantablack mean?
noun
- 1
A class of super-black coatings that absorb almost all light.
- 2
A very dark shade of black.
adjective
- 1
Of a very dark shade of black.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Vantablack
- Vantablacks plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Vantablack?
Vantablack appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th 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 Vantablack come from?
From VANTA (“vertically aligned carbon nanotube array”) + black.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).