vestige
/ˈvɛs.tɪd͡ʒ/
"vestige" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vestige” is uncommon English (frequency #50,886 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,886
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A mark left on the earth by a foot.
Corpus desk
Index EN-vestige · vestige · English
vestige · rank #50,886 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,886
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH venturi
Nearest frequency peer: venturi (-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 “vestige”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- venturi
venturi
49,116 corpus weight
- vestige
vestige
49,115 corpus weight
- vibrancy
vibrancy
49,114 corpus weight
- Vicodin
Vicodin
49,113 corpus weight
- vindicate
vindicate
49,112 corpus weight
- Waddington
Waddington
49,111 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “vestige” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “vestige” in English
Rare enough to double-check
vestige is uncommon English at frequency #50,886 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈvɛs.tɪd͡ʒ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vestige appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
the vestiges of ancient magnificence in Palmyra
vestiges of former population
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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