zesty
/ˈzɛsti/
"zesty" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“zesty” is uncommon English (frequency #59,140 among 265 “Z” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,140
- frequency rank, English
- 265
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having a piquant or pungent taste; spicy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-zesty · zesty · English
zesty · rank #59,140 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,140
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 265
- PHOTO-FINISH Zacharias
Nearest frequency peer: Zacharias (-2 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 “zesty”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- your's
your's
40,866 corpus weight
- yume
yume
40,864 corpus weight
- Zacharias
Zacharias
40,863 corpus weight
- zesty
zesty
40,861 corpus weight
- zooplankton
zooplankton
40,859 corpus weight
- Zuni
Zuni
40,857 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “zesty” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zesty |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈzɛsti/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,140 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “zesty” in English
Rare enough to double-check
zesty is uncommon English at frequency #59,140 among 265 “Z” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈzɛsti/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for zesty in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From zest + -y. The correct English form is zesty, spelled Z-E-S-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Having a piquant or pungent taste; spicy.
- 2Zestful.
- 3Of a man, flamboyantly or effeminately gay.
- 4Gay.
Etymology
From zest + -y.
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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