vocalism
noun
vocalism is a noun meaning “Speaking or singing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-O-C-A-L-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 59 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vocalism is vocalisms.
What does vocalism mean?
noun
- 1
Speaking or singing.
- 2
The vowel sounds used in a language.
- 3
The vowels, sequence of vowels, or the quality peculiar to the vowels of a given word or group of words.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vocalism
- vocalisms plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vocalism?
Vocalism appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th 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).
Vocalism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense The vowel sounds used in a language:
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 vocalism come from?
From vocal + -ism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).