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vitta

noun

vitta is a noun meaning “A fillet, or garland for the head” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-T-T-A, and it appears about once in every 37 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vitta is vittae.

What does vitta mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A fillet, or garland for the head.

  2. 2

    A longitudinal stripe.

  3. 3

    An oil tube in the fruit of some plants.

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

Forms of vitta

  • vittae plural

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

How common is vitta?

Vitta appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd 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 vitta come from?

Borrowed from Latin vitta.

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