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vide

vi·deUK /vaɪd/verb

vide is spelled V-I-D-E: 4 letters and 2 syllables (vi·de). It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,168th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, vide means “Clipping of divide (to split or separate into two or more parts.)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in vide?

Letters4: V-I-D-E
Syllables2: vi·de
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 31,168th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is vide?

Vide appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,168th 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 vide?

  • UK /vaɪd/

As a verb (“A remark directing the reader to look to the specified…”): /ˈvaɪdi/, /ˈvɪdi/, /ˈvidi/.

Vide has 2 syllables, split vi·de in writing.

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

Words people confuse with vide

Also written: divide.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with vide?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as vide from its last stressed vowel (/idi/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: dive, devi.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of vide

  • vides present, singular, he/she/it
  • viding participle, present
  • vided participle, past
  • 'vide
  • v.
  • vid.
  • vidê

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

What does vide mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    USClipping of divide (to split or separate into two or more parts.).

  2. 2

    Clipping of divide! (an order for the members of a legislative assembly to divide into two groups [the ayes and the nays] for the counting of the members’ votes).

  3. 3

    A remark directing the reader to look to the specified place for epexegesis; see; consult; refer to.

verb

as vidê
  1. 1

    rareAlternative spelling of vide (“see”).

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

Where does vide come from?

See divide.

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

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