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void

/vɔɪd/adjective, noun, verb

void is spelled V-O-I-D: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,009th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, void means “Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in void?

Letters4: V-O-I-D
Syllables1
In writing10 times per million words; the 7,009th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is void?

Void appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,009th 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).

How do you pronounce void?

  • /vɔɪd/

Void has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-void.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with void?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as void.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: divo.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of void

  • voids plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • voiding participle, present
  • voided participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does void mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.

    Today's youth's brains are sucked void of common sense.

  2. 2

    Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.

  3. 3

    Being without; destitute; devoid.

  4. 4

    Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.

  5. 5

    Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.

    null and void

  6. 6

    Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.

  7. 7

    Of a function or method, that does not return a value; being a procedure rather than a function.

  8. 8

    Having no cards in a particular suit.

noun

  1. 1

    An empty space; a vacuum.

    Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.

  2. 2

    An extended region of space containing no galaxies.

  3. 3

    A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.

  4. 4

    A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.

  5. 5

    An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.

  6. 6

    A black cat.

    My little void is so sweet sometimes.

  7. 7

    An empty place; a location that has nothing useful.

  8. 8

    The lack of cards in a particular suit.

  9. 9

    archaicA voidee.

verb

  1. 1

    To make invalid or worthless.

    Near-synonym: nullify

  2. 2

    Synonym of empty (verb).

    void one’s bladder

  3. 3

    To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.

    to void excrement

  4. 4

    obsoleteTo withdraw; to depart.

  5. 5

    obsoleteTo remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.

    to void a table

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate void?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of void: TOV.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Void in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchvide, libre (containing nothing), vacant (unoccupied), dépourvu (being without), néant (an empty space; a vacuum), annuler (to make invalid or worthless)
Germanleer (containing nothing), Leere (an empty space; a vacuum), vergeblich, umsonst (not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain), ungültig, nichtig (having lost all legal validity)
Portuguesevazio, vazia (containing nothing), vácuo (an empty space; a vacuum), anular (to make invalid or worthless), nulo, inválido (having lost all legal validity)
Spanishhuero (containing nothing), vacante, vacuo (unoccupied), vacío (an empty space; a vacuum), nulo, inválido (having lost all legal validity)

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 void come from?

From Middle English voide, voyde, from Old French vuit, voide, vuide (modern vide), in turn from Vulgar Latin *vocitum, ultimately from Latin vacuus.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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