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vox

noun

vox is spelled V-O-X: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,516th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, vox means “The voice, especially one's singing voice; vocals” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of vox is voxes or voces.

How many letters and syllables are in vox?

Letters3: V-O-X
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.7 times per million words; the 21,516th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is vox?

Vox appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,516th 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 vox?

Vox has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-vox.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of vox

  • voxes plural
  • voces plural

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

What does vox mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The voice, especially one's singing voice; vocals.

  2. 2

    informalEllipsis of vox pop.

noun

as VOX
  1. 1

    Abbreviation of voice operated recording.

  2. 2

    Alternative spelling of VOx.

noun

as VOx
  1. 1

    Abbreviation of vanadium oxides.

  2. 2

    oxygen uptake

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

Where does vox come from?

From Latin vōx (“voice”). Doublet of voice.

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

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