rasta
/ˈɹæs.tə/
"rasta" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rasta” is uncommon English (frequency #53,198 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,198
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rastafarian
Corpus desk
Index EN-rasta · rasta · English
rasta · rank #53,198 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,198
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH radiometric
Nearest frequency peer: radiometric (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “rasta”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- quintessent…
quintessentially
46,808 corpus weight
- qwerty
qwerty
46,806 corpus weight
- radiometric
radiometric
46,804 corpus weight
- rasta
rasta
46,803 corpus weight
- rdf
rdf
46,800 corpus weight
- reconfigura…
reconfiguration
46,799 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rasta” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rasta |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɹæs.tə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rasta” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rasta is uncommon English at frequency #53,198 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɹæs.tə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for rasta in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Short for Rastafarian or Rastafari. The correct English form is rasta, spelled R-A-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Rastafarian
- 2Diminutive of rastaquouère
Etymology
Short for Rastafarian or Rastafari.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).