vase
/veɪ̯s/noun, verb
vase is spelled V-A-S-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, vase means “An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of vase is vases.
How many letters and syllables are in vase?
| Letters | 4: V-A-S-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.5 times per million words; the 14,106th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is vase?
Vase appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th 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 vase?
- UK /vɑːz/
- UK /vɔːz/
- US /veɪ̯s/
Vase 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-gb-vase.ogg, En-us-vase.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with vase?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as vase from its last stressed vowel (/eɪs/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: save, seva.
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 vase
- vases plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- vasing participle, present
- vased participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does vase mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers.
a vase of flowers
- 2
The body of the Corinthian capital.
verb
- 1
To place in a vase or similar container.
noun
- 1
an exon of NCAM; it is thought to correlate with an inhibition of the neurite outgrowth-promoting properties of this protein
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Vase in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense container used mainly for displaying flowers:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does vase come from?
Borrowed from Middle French vase, from Latin vās. Doublet of vas.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).