vatu
/ˈvɑːtuː/noun
vatu is a noun meaning “The national currency of Vanuatu” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-T-U, and it appears about once in every 74 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vatu is vatus.
What does vatu mean?
noun
- 1
The national currency of Vanuatu.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vatu?
- /ˈvɑːtuː/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-vatu.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of vatu
- vatus plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vatu?
Vatu appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd 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 vatu come from?
Borrowed from Bislama vatu (“stone”), borrowed from Raga vatu (“stone”), from Proto-Oceanic *patu (“stone”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).