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vibe

/vaɪb/noun, verb

vibe is spelled V-I-B-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 8.7 times per million words in written English, the 7,797th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, vibe means “An atmosphere or aura felt to belong to a person, place or thing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of vibe is vibes.

How many letters and syllables are in vibe?

Letters4: V-I-B-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing8.7 times per million words; the 7,797th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is vibe?

Vibe appears 8.7 times per million words in written English, the 7,797th 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 vibe?

  • /vaɪb/

Vibe has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

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

Forms of vibe

  • vibes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • vibing participle, present
  • vibed participle, past

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

What does vibe mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    informalAn atmosphere or aura felt to belong to a person, place or thing.

    The couple canceled their night out when they got a bad vibe from the new babysitter.

  2. 2

    informalGut feeling, an impression based on intuition instead of solid data.

  3. 3

    informalThe use of AI to perform a task without expertise, generally without validating the output deeply.

  4. 4

    informalSomething that is good, trendy, pleasant, or atmospheric; a thing or person with a good vibe.

  5. 5

    colloquialA vibraphone.

  6. 6

    informalVibration.

  7. 7

    informalA vibrator (sex toy).

verb

  1. 1

    colloquialTo stimulate with a vibrator.

  2. 2

    colloquialTo relax and enjoy oneself.

  3. 3

    colloquialTo agree.

  4. 4

    colloquialTo get along; to hit it off.

  5. 5

    colloquialTo feel in agreement with; to appreciate or enjoy.

  6. 6

    colloquialTo treat (a fellow performer) in a condescending or insulting manner, typically during a performance or jam session, to signal to them that they are unsatisfactory.

  7. 7

    To vibe code.

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

Vibe in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchvibe, aura (atmosphere or aura)
GermanVibe (atmosphere or aura), Schwingung, Vibration (vibration), Vibrator (sex toy), abhängen, entspannen (relax, enjoy yourself)
Portuguesevibração, astral (atmosphere or aura)
Spanishonda, vibra, rollo (atmosphere or aura), vacilar, bacilar (To agree. To get along; to hit it off. To feel…)

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 vibe come from?

Apocopic form of vibration, vibrator, etc.

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

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