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vastu

noun

vastu is a noun meaning “A philosophy of architecture that has elements akin to feng shui” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-S-T-U, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does vastu mean?

noun

  1. 1

    IndiaA philosophy of architecture that has elements akin to feng shui

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of vastu

  • vaastu

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is vastu?

Vastu appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does vastu come from?

From Sanskrit वास्तु (vā́stu, “homestead, house, building”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).