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vatic

/ˈvætɪk/adjective

vatic is an adjective meaning “Pertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-T-I-C, and it appears about once in every 66 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does vatic mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Pertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular.

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

How do you pronounce vatic?

  • /ˈvætɪk/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-vatic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

How common is vatic?

Vatic appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th 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 vatic come from?

From Latin vates (“seer, poet”) + -ic.

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