vestige
/ˈvɛs.tɪd͡ʒ/
"vestige" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vestige” is an uncommon English word, ranked #50,886 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #50,886
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A mark left on the earth by a foot.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vestige |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈvɛs.tɪd͡ʒ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,886 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vestige” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for vestige is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈvɛs.tɪd͡ʒ/. Corpus data places it at rank #50,886 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vestige, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French vestige, from Latin vestīgium (“footstep, footprint, track, the sole of the foot, a trace, mark”). Doublet of vestigium. The correct English form is vestige, spelled V-E-S-T-I-G-E.
Definition
- 1A mark left on the earth by a foot.
- 2A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present.
- 3A vestigial organ; a non-functional organ or body part that was once functional in an evolutionary ancestor.
- 4The remaining portion of a partially suppressed sideband.
Etymology
From French vestige, from Latin vestīgium (“footstep, footprint, track, the sole of the foot, a trace, mark”). Doublet of vestigium.
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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Using “vestige”
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- The one correct English spelling is V-E-S-T-I-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈvɛs.tɪd͡ʒ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.