vasa
\va.za\
The verdict
“vasa” is uncommon French (frequency #87,238 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,238
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - De vaser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vasa · vasa · French
vasa · rank #87,238 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,238
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH varieront
Nearest frequency peer: varieront (-1 rank slots)
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “vasa”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- vaporeuse
vaporeuse
12,766 corpus weight
- vardon
vardon
12,765 corpus weight
- varieront
varieront
12,764 corpus weight
- vasa
vasa
12,763 corpus weight
- veiné
veiné
12,762 corpus weight
- velus
velus
12,761 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “vasa” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vasa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \va.za\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #87,238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vasa” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
vasa is uncommon French at frequency #87,238 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \va.za\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "De vaser.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for vasa, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is vasa, spelled V-A-S-A.
Definition
- 1De vaser.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.