vibratile

adj

"vibratile" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“vibratile” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Adapted to, or used in, vibratory motion; having the power of vibrating.

Corpus desk

Index EN-vibratile · vibratile · English

vibratile · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "V" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for vibratile
PropertyValue
Headwordvibratile
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “vibratile” sits in English frequency

vibratileranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

vibratile is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Adapted to, or used in, vibratory motion; having the power of vibrating.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for vibratile, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is vibratile, spelled V-I-B-R-A-T-I-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Adapted to, or used in, vibratory motion; having the power of vibrating.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how vibratile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. the vibratile organs of insects

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vibratile"?
"vibratile" is spelled V-I-B-R-A-T-I-L-E.
What does "vibratile" mean?
As an adjective, "vibratile" means: Adapted to, or used in, vibratory motion; having the power of vibrating.
What language does "vibratile" come from?
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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list