Nouns That Start With V

232 words Words by letter Checked 9 Oct 2026

These nouns that start with V come from a standard English dictionary used for word games, ranked by how often each word is used in everyday writing. There are 232 nouns starting with V on this page. The 100 most common come first, each with a short meaning, followed by shorter, longer and easier picks and a filter for any ending or length.

V includes 232 nouns, a solid number for a letter that some people find tricky. Video, voice, village, van and valley are all common and easy to picture.

For kids, vegetable and volleyball are good longer words that break into clear syllables. Vocabulary is a fitting one to teach on a words page. Vacation is the American word for a holiday, which is a nice discussion point for mixed classes.

Nouns starting with V: 232
Most used: video
Longest common one: vulnerability 13 letters

Most common nouns that start with V

Ranked by how often the word appears in English text. "Type" is the word's main part of speech.

#	Word	Meaning	Type
1	video	the visible part of a television transmission	noun
2	view	a way of regarding situations or topics etc.	noun
3	value	a numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed	noun
4	version	an interpretation of a matter from a particular viewpoint	noun
5	voice	the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech	noun
6	village	a community of people smaller than a town	noun
7	van	any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field...	noun
8	vehicle	a conveyance that transports people or objects	noun
9	volume	the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object	noun
10	variety	a collection containing a variety of sorts of things	noun
11	violence	an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)	noun
12	victory	a successful ending of a struggle or contest	noun
13	valley	a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river	noun
14	vice	moral weakness	noun
15	values	beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against...	noun
16	vision	a vivid mental image	noun
17	voting	a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative	noun
18	victim	an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance	noun
19	victoria	queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901	noun
20	virus	(virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts	noun
21	vacation	leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure	noun
22	virgin	a person who has never had sex	noun
23	vessel	a tube in which a body fluid circulates	noun
24	venue	the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)	noun
25	viewers	the audience reached by television	noun
26	veteran	a serviceman who has seen considerable active service	noun
27	villa	Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923)	noun
28	verse	literature in metrical form	noun
29	victor	a combatant who is able to defeat rivals	noun
30	vintage	a season's yield of wine from a vineyard	noun
31	violation	a crime less serious than a felony	noun
32	valve	a structure in a hollow organ (like the heart) with a flap to insure one-way flow of fluid through it	noun
33	voter	a citizen who has a legal right to vote	noun
34	vacuum	the absence of matter	noun
35	variation	an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change	noun
36	vampire	(folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living	noun
37	verdict	(law) the findings of a jury on issues of fact submitted to it for decision	noun
38	voltage	the rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit	noun
39	visitor	someone who visits	noun
40	vitamin	any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism	noun
41	vaccine	immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the...	noun
42	vinyl	a univalent chemical radical derived from ethylene	noun
43	vector	a variable quantity that can be resolved into components	noun
44	vegan	a strict vegetarian; someone who eats no animal or dairy products at all	noun
45	vegetable	edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous...	noun
46	vibe	a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively	noun
47	virtue	the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong	noun
48	velocity	distance travelled per unit time	noun
49	vault	a burial chamber (usually underground)	noun
50	vet	a doctor who practices veterinary medicine	noun
51	voyage	an act of traveling by water	noun
52	villain	a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately	noun
53	volleyball	a game in which two teams hit an inflated ball over a high net using their hands	noun
54	vanilla	any of numerous climbing plants of the genus Vanilla having fleshy leaves and clusters of large waxy highly...	noun
55	violet	any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers	noun
56	vodka	unaged colorless liquor originating in Russia	noun
57	vocabulary	a listing of the words used in some enterprise	noun
58	vent	a hole for the escape of gas or air	noun
59	vicinity	a surrounding or nearby region	noun
60	vendor	someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money	noun
61	variant	an event that departs from expectations	noun
62	vegetarian	eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products	noun
63	visibility	quality or fact or degree of being visible; perceptible by the eye or obvious to the eye	noun
64	valentine	no short meaning listed	noun
65	vegetation	all the plant life in a particular region or period	noun
66	vein	a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart	noun
67	velvet	a silky densely piled fabric with a plain back	noun
68	viewer	a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)	noun
69	volcano	a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases...	noun
70	valuation	an appraisal of the value of something	noun
71	vanity	feelings of excessive pride	noun
72	violin	bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family	noun
73	vine	a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface	noun
74	verb	the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence	noun
75	vista	the visual percept of a region	noun
76	vogue	the popular taste at a given time	noun
77	validity	the quality of being valid and rigorous	noun
78	varsity	a British abbreviation of `university'; usually refers to Oxford University or Cambridge University	noun
79	verification	additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct	noun
80	vulnerability	the state of being vulnerable or exposed	noun
81	validation	the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something	noun
82	vengeance	the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done)...	noun
83	verge	a region marking a boundary	noun
84	vacancy	being unoccupied	noun
85	var	a unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1...	noun
86	veto	a vote that blocks a decision	noun
87	viewpoint	a mental position from which things are viewed	noun
88	vinegar	sour-tasting liquid produced usually by oxidation of the alcohol in wine or cider and used as a condiment or...	noun
89	vomiting	the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth	noun
90	vale	a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river	noun
91	valencia	an industrial city in northern Venezuela	noun
92	ventilation	the act of supplying fresh air and getting rid of foul air	noun
93	viking	any of the Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries	noun
94	vaccination	taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease	noun
95	vibration	the act of vibrating	noun
96	venom	toxin secreted by animals; secreted by certain snakes and poisonous insects (e.g., spiders and scorpions)	noun
97	vapor	a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance	noun
98	veronica	any plant of the genus Veronica	noun
99	vibes	a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators...	noun
100	vase	an open jar of glass or porcelain used as an ornament or to hold flowers	noun

Positive nouns that start with V

variety
victory
virtue
visionary
versatility
valor
vigilance

Short nouns that start with V

video
view
value
voice
van
vice
virus
venue
villa
verse
valve
voter
vinyl
vegan
vibe
vault
vet
vodka
vent
vein
vine
verb
vista
vogue
verge
var
veto
vale
venom
vapor
vibes
vase
vat
viola
vicar
viva

Long nouns that start with V

volleyball
vocabulary
vegetarian
visibility
vegetation
verification
vulnerability
validation
ventilation
vaccination
volatility
variability
visitation
versatility
visualization
vernacular
veterinarian
ventilator
vertebrate
vindication
veneration
vacationing
vaudeville
victimization
valedictorian
vinaigrette
vegetarianism
virtuosity
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How many nouns start with V?

This list has 232 nouns starting with V, taken from a standard word-game dictionary and limited to words that appear in real English text.

What are the most common nouns that start with V?

video, view, value, version, voice, village, van, vehicle are the most used in everyday English.

What are some long nouns that start with V?

violation, variation, vegetable, volleyball, vocabulary.

What are easy nouns that start with V for kids?

video, view, value, voice, van, volume are short, everyday examples.

Source: the ENABLE word list (a public-domain dictionary used for word games), ranked by how often each word appears in English text (the open wordfreq project), with short meanings from Princeton WordNet. Offensive words are left out.

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