vacile
Spanish, noun
vacile is spelled V-A-C-I-L-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Spanish, the 101,597th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vacile is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “joke, leg-pull, mockery” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of vacilar. With an accent, vacilé is a different word: “first-person singular preterite indicative of vacilar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción y resultado de vacilar o tomar el pelo, haciendo confundir o titubear a alguien, por diversión”.
What does vacile mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculinejoke, leg-pull, mockery
- 2
masculineslanga superficial relationship; fling; dalliance
- 3
masculineslanga lover with whom someone has a superficial relationship
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
first-person singular preterite indicative of vacilar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción y resultado de vacilar o tomar el pelo, haciendo confundir o titubear a alguien, por diversión. 2. Acción y efecto de vacilar o pasar un rato festivo. 3. Encuentro pasajero de enamoramiento o atracción sexual, sin intención de una relación de pareja duradera. 4. Persona con la que se tiene un vacile₃ o amorío pasajero.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of vacile
- vaciles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is vacile in Spanish?
vacile appears about once in every 7 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).