# vast

> English word · Adjective · IPA /vɑːst/ · frequency rank #3,096

## Definitions
1. Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
2. Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
3. Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.

## Etymology
From Middle French vaste, from Latin vastus (“void, immense”). Related to waste and German Wüste.

## Easily confused with
- **vet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vast-vs-vet)
- **vat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vast-vs-vat)
- **vis** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vast-vs-vis)
- **VHS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vast-vs-vhs)
- **Vos** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vast-vs-vos)
- **VPS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vast-vs-vps)
- **vax** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vast-vs-vax)
- **Vit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vast-vs-vit)
- **visa** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vast-vs-visa)
- **vent** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vast-vs-vent)
- **vest** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vast-vs-vest)
- **volt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vast-vs-volt)
- **Viet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vast-vs-viet)
- **Voss** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vast-vs-voss)
- **vert** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vast-vs-vert)
- **vise** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vast-vs-vise)
- **Vogt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vast-vs-vogt)
- **visit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vast-vs-visit)
- **vault** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vast-vs-vault)
- **vista** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vast-vs-vista)

## Common misspellings (6)
`avst`, `vasst`, `vastt`, `vats`, `vsat`, `vvast`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/vast