vasa
"vasa" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vasa” is uncommon English (frequency #67,936 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,936
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any parrot of the genus Coracopsis, native to Madagascar.
Corpus desk
Index EN-vasa · vasa · English
vasa · rank #67,936 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,936
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH vasculitis
Nearest frequency peer: vasculitis (+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 “vasa”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- unstated
unstated
32,070 corpus weight
- unwinnable
unwinnable
32,069 corpus weight
- vasa
vasa
32,065 corpus weight
- vasculitis
vasculitis
32,064 corpus weight
- ventilate
ventilate
32,062 corpus weight
- Verner
Verner
32,061 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “vasa” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vasa |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “vasa” in English
Rare enough to double-check
vasa is uncommon English at frequency #67,936 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any parrot of the genus Coracopsis, native to Madagascar.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for vasa, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: ] From Malagasy vaza. The correct English form is vasa, spelled V-A-S-A.
Definition
- 1Any parrot of the genus Coracopsis, native to Madagascar.
Etymology
] From Malagasy vaza.
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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