vil
French, adjective/vil/
vil is a French adjective meaning “cheap, worthless” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est bas, abject, méprisable”.
What does vil mean in English?
adjective
- 1
cheap, worthless
- 2
vile (morally low)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est bas, abject, méprisable. 2. Qui est de peu de valeur, de prix bas.
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 vil
- vile feminine
- vils masculine plural
- viles feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vil?
- /vil/
- \vil\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vil
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vil in French?
vil appears 1.6 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).