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video

/ˈvɪd.i.oʊ/noun, verb

video is spelled V-I-D-E-O. The wrong spelling people search most is vedio: about 490 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 179 of all searches for the word. Video is a noun meaning “Transient visual content or media, processed with technology, especially electronic”. The plural of video is videos; Wiktionary also lists videmus (humorous), videoes (nonstandard).

How many letters and syllables are in video?

Letters5: V-I-D-E-O
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing269 times per million words; the 356th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, vedio, about 490 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Same letters

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

How do you spell video?

Video is spelled V-I-D-E-O. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 180 of the searches for video in either form.

videothe right spelling87,650 searches a month
vedioe in place of i, i in place of e490 searches a month

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 video?

Video appears 269 times per million words in written English, the 356th 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 video?

  • UK /ˈvɪd.i.əʊ/
  • US /ˈvɪd.i.oʊ/
  • [ˈʋi.ɖɪ.jo]

Video has 3 syllables (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: En-us-video.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with video?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as video (/ɪdioʊ/).

Spelled with the same letters in another order: dovie.

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 video

  • videos plural
  • videmus plural, rare
  • videoes present, singular, he/she/it
  • videoing participle, present
  • videoed participle, past

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

What does video mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Transient visual content or media, processed with technology, especially electronic.

    Early TV used film to record video.

  2. 2

    A recording or medium of visual content, especially audiovisual content for playback; a motion picture, movie, film.

    We edited a video montage of Robbie's first birthday.

  3. 3

    datedTelevision content or media.

  4. 4

    datedvideotape, VHS.

verb

  1. 1

    UKTo record using a video camera, to videotape.

  2. 2

    UKTo record a television program.

  3. 3

    To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.

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

How do you abbreviate video?

Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of video: vdo, vid.

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

Video in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchvidéo (television show, movie), cassette vidéo, vidéocassette (VHS), video- (related to moving images, and especially to…)
GermanVideo (television show, movie), Videokassette (VHS), video- (related to moving images, and especially to…)
Portuguesevídeo (television show, movie), videocassete, fita (VHS)
Spanishvídeo, video (television show, movie), videocinta (VHS), video- (related to moving images, and especially to…)

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 video come from?

From the root vide of Latin videō (“to see”) + -o, formed in analogy to audio.

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

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