versal
noun
versal is a noun meaning “An ornamental letter that begins a section” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-R-S-A-L, and it appears about once in every 51 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of versal is versals.
What does versal mean?
noun
- 1
An ornamental letter that begins a section.
adjective
- 1
obsoleteUniversal
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of versal
- versals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is versal?
Versal appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th 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 versal come from?
By surface analysis, verse + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).