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verst

/vɝst/noun

verst is a noun meaning “A Russian unit of length, equivalent to about 1.07 kilometres or about ²⁄₃ of a mile” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-R-S-T, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of verst is versts.

What does verst mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A Russian unit of length, equivalent to about 1.07 kilometres or about ²⁄₃ of a mile.

    |The hill Pulkowa, twelve miles (seventeen wersts) south of Admiralty Palace in St. Petersburg, […]

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

How do you pronounce verst?

  • UK /vɜːst/
  • US /vɝst/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-versed.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of verst

  • versts plural
  • versta
  • verste
  • werst

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

How common is verst?

Verst appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th 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).

Words people confuse with verst

Sounds like: versed (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

How do you abbreviate verst?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of verst: v..

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

Verst in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense unit of length:

LanguageWords
Frenchverste
GermanWerst
Portugueseversta

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does verst come from?

Borrowed from Russian верста́ (verstá), partly through German Werst and French verste.

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