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vectis

noun

vectis is a noun meaning “Any of various surgical instruments with prying functions” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-C-T-I-S, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vectis is vectes.

What does vectis mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any of various surgical instruments with prying functions.

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

Forms of vectis

  • vectes plural

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

How common is vectis?

Vectis appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th 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 vectis come from?

Naturalized into medical English and ISV from Latin vectis.

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