VLT

noun

"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

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “VLT” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for VLT
PropertyValue
HeadwordVLT
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters3
Frequency rank#96,643
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “VLT” in English

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).VLTfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Rare peers in the same band: “vireo” (#96,642), “vint” (#96,641), “vinaya” (#96,640). Among 969 “V” headwords, “VLT” is #96,643. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Initialism of video lottery terminal.
  2. 2
    Initialism of visible light transmission.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how VLT appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "VLT"?
"VLT" is spelled V-L-T.
What does "VLT" mean?
As a noun, "VLT" means: Initialism of video lottery terminal.
What language does "VLT" come from?
"VLT" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "VLT", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list