vengeance
ven·geance/ˈvɛnˌd͡ʒəns/noun
vengeance is spelled V-E-N-G-E-A-N-C-E, 2 syllables: ven·geance. The wrong spelling people search most is vengence: about 580 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Vengeance is a noun meaning “Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong”. The plural of vengeance is vengeances.
How many letters and syllables are in vengeance?
| Letters | 9: V-E-N-G-E-A-N-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: ven·geance |
| In writing | 4.8 times per million words; the 11,541st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, vengence, about 580 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell vengeance?
Vengeance is spelled V-E-N-G-E-A-N-C-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for vengeance in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is vengeance?
Vengeance appears 4.8 times per million words in written English, the 11,541st 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 vengeance?
- /ˈvɛnˌd͡ʒəns/
Vengeance has 2 syllables, split ven·geance in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-vengeance.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of vengeance
- vengeances plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does vengeance mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.
- 2
Desire for revenge.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Vengeance in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | vengeance |
| German | Rache, Vergeltung |
| Portuguese | vingança |
| Spanish | venganza |
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 vengeance come from?
From Anglo-Norman vengeaunce, from Old French vengeance, venjance, from vengier (“to avenge”). Analysable as venge + -ance.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).