vespers
/ˈvɛsˌpɝz/
"vespers" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vespers” is uncommon English (frequency #57,160 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,160
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The sixth of the seven canonical hours, an evening prayer service
Corpus desk
Index EN-vespers · vespers · English
vespers · rank #57,160 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,160
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH vilify
Nearest frequency peer: vilify (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “vespers”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- velour
velour
42,844 corpus weight
- verbose
verbose
42,843 corpus weight
- vespers
vespers
42,841 corpus weight
- vilify
vilify
42,840 corpus weight
- virility
virility
42,839 corpus weight
- Wahhabi
Wahhabi
42,837 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “vespers” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vespers |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈvɛsˌpɝz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “vespers” in English
Rare enough to double-check
vespers is uncommon English at frequency #57,160 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈvɛsˌpɝz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for vespers, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English vespers, from Old French vespres (French vêpres), from Ecclesiastical Latin vesperae (“vespers”), substantivisation of relational Late Latin vesperus (“evening”), from vesper (“evening”) + -us. Euphemistic use first as Vèpres éphésiennes… The correct English form is vespers, spelled V-E-S-P-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1The sixth of the seven canonical hours, an evening prayer service
- 2A massacre
Etymology
From Middle English vespers, from Old French vespres (French vêpres), from Ecclesiastical Latin vesperae (“vespers”), substantivisation of relational Late Latin vesperus (“evening”), from vesper (“evening”) + -us. Euphemistic use first as Vèpres éphésiennes (“Ephesian Vespers”), coined in 1890 by historian Théodore Reinach by analogy with the Sicilian Vespers.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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