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vild

/vaɪld/obsolete

vild is an adjective meaning “vile” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-L-D, and it appears about once in every 72 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does vild mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    obsoletevile

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

How do you pronounce vild?

  • /vaɪld/

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

Forms of vild

  • more vild comparative
  • most vild superlative

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

How common is vild?

Vild appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th 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 vild come from?

As if the past participle of a verb *to vile. See vile (adjective).

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