voe
/voʊ/noun
voe is a noun meaning “A narrow sea inlet, particularly in the Shetland Islands, similar to a fjord” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-O-E, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of voe is voes.
What does voe mean?
noun
- 1
UKA narrow sea inlet, particularly in the Shetland Islands, similar to a fjord.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce voe?
- UK /vəʊ/
- US /voʊ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of voe
- voes plural
- vae
- vo
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is voe?
Voe appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th 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 voe come from?
Shetland and Orkney dialect, from Norn, from Old Norse vágr (“inlet, bay”). Cognate with Swedish and Norwegian våg, and Faroese vágur. Doublet of way.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).