vermicompost
verb, noun
vermicompost is a verb meaning “To employ worms to break down organic waste into soil or humus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-R-M-I-C-O-M-P-O-S-T, and it appears about once in every 68 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does vermicompost mean?
verb
- 1
To employ worms to break down organic waste into soil or humus
noun
- 1
The product of worm composting; worm castings.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vermicompost
- vermicomposts present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- vermicomposting participle, present
- vermicomposted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vermicompost?
Vermicompost appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th 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 vermicompost come from?
From vermi- (“worm”) + compost.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).