vastus
/ˈvæs.təs/noun
vastus is a noun meaning “One of the great muscles upon the front of the thigh” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-S-T-U-S and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vastus is vasti.
What does vastus mean?
noun
- 1
One of the great muscles upon the front of the thigh.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vastus?
- US /ˈvæs.təs/
Vastus has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vastus
- vasti plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vastus?
Vastus appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th 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 vastus come from?
From Latin vastus (“vast, immense, enormous, huge, monstrous”). Doublet of vast.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).