vire
/vaɪə(ɹ)/verb
vire is a verb meaning “To transfer a surplus from one account to cover a deficit in another, to make a virement” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-R-E, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does vire mean?
verb
- 1
To transfer a surplus from one account to cover a deficit in another, to make a virement.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vire?
- /vaɪə(ɹ)/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-vire.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of vire
- vires present, singular, he/she/it
- viring participle, present
- vired participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vire?
Vire appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th 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 vire come from?
From Old French vire, from virer (“to turn”). Compare veer, vireton.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).