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vapour

noun, verb

vapour is a noun meaning “British standard spelling of vapor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-P-O-U-R, and it appears 1.0 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vapour is vapours.

What does vapour mean?

noun

  1. 1

    British standard spelling of vapor.

verb

  1. 1

    British standard spelling of vapor.

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

Forms of vapour

  • vapours plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • vapouring participle, present
  • vapoured participle, past

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

How common is vapour?

Vapour appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,214th 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).