vicissitude
French, noun/vi.si.si.tyd/
vicissitude is spelled V-I-C-I-S-S-I-T-U-D-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 56 million words in written French, the 236,816th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vicissitude is a French feminine noun meaning “vicissitude” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Révolution, changement par lequel des choses différentes se succèdent les unes aux autres”.
What does vicissitude mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininevicissitude
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Révolution, changement par lequel des choses différentes se succèdent les unes aux autres. 2. Instabilité, disposition qu’ont toutes les choses à changer rapidement de mal en bien, de bien en mal. 3. Ces changements mêmes.
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 vicissitude
- vicissitudes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vicissitude?
- /vi.si.si.tyd/
- \vi.si.si.tyd\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vicissitude
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vicissitude in French?
vicissitude appears about once in every 56 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).