vice
French, noun/vis/
vice is spelled V-I-C-E (4 letters) and appears 52 times per million words in written French, the 1,592nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vice is a French masculine noun meaning “vice (bad habit)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Défaut, imperfection grave qui rend une chose plus ou moins impropre à sa destination”.
What does vice mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinevice (bad habit)
prefix
- 1
vice- (deputy)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Défaut, imperfection grave qui rend une chose plus ou moins impropre à sa destination. 2. Disposition habituelle au mal, chez l’humain. En ce sens, il est opposé à la vertu. 3. Disposition habituelle à faire un certain mal particulier. 4. Goût du plaisir, libertinage, débauche, recherche du plaisir sexuel.
adjective: 1. Variante de vice-.
prefix: 1. Vice, second en rang hiérarchique ; élément qui se met en tête d’un mot pour signifier une fonction d’adjoint ou de suppléant.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of vice
- vices plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vice?
- /vis/
- \vis\
- [vis]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vice
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vice in French?
vice appears 52 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).