VLT
"vlt" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“VLT” is uncommon English (frequency #96,643 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,643
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of video lottery terminal.
Corpus desk
Index EN-vlt · VLT · English
VLT · rank #96,643 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,643
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH vireo
Nearest frequency peer: vireo (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “VLT”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- venu
venu
3,365 corpus weight
- Veron
Veron
3,363 corpus weight
- vinaya
vinaya
3,361 corpus weight
- vint
vint
3,360 corpus weight
- vireo
vireo
3,359 corpus weight
- VLT
VLT
3,358 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “VLT” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | VLT |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #96,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “VLT” in English
Rare enough to double-check
VLT is uncommon English at frequency #96,643 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
VLT has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is VLT, spelled V-L-T.
Definition
- 1Initialism of video lottery terminal.
- 2Initialism of visible light transmission.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how VLT appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For bright, sunny days, you’ll want to look for VLT of 5-20%, like the Smith ChromaPop Sun Platinum Mirror (13%). For cloudy, snowy days, you’ll want to look for VLT of 65-90%, like the Dragon Photochromatic Yellow lens (73%).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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