vice versa
/ˈvaɪsi ˈvɝsə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.68 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Since there are two contestants left in the race, either Bob will come first place and Alice second place, or vice versa."
- "The most loved scholar of the university wrote a memorable diary to his students, and vice versa, the students wrote to him."
- "I’m going to give her a diamond necklace for her birthday, and vice versa, she’s going to get me a Premium Pass for FIFA 24 for mine."
- "Stenfeldt’s research on Nils Flyg’s and Sven Olov Lindholm’s transition from far-left to the far-right and vice versa during the interwar years is a great example of how Freeden’s morphology of ideologies can be used to not only study ideologies of the far-right, but also to study how ideologies relate to each other and to conduct comparisons between them."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ablative absolute vice versā (“the position having been reversed”), from feminine third declension noun vicis (“arrangement, order, position”) + feminine ablative singular of perfect passive participle versus, from vertō (“to turn, to reverse”).
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈvaɪsi ˈvɝsə/
- British English: /ˈvaɪsɪ ˈvɜːsə/
Inflected Forms
vice-versa (alternative)
vicey versey (alternative, pronunciation spelling)
v.v. (alternative, abbreviation)
vice versâ (alternative)
vice-versâ (alternative)