vénusté
\ve.nys.te\
The verdict
“vénusté” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Beauté gracieuse et élégante.
Corpus desk
Index FR-venuste · vénusté · French
vénusté · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vénusté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ve.nys.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
vénusté is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ve.nys.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Beauté gracieuse et élégante.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vénusté, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is vénusté, spelled V-É-N-U-S-T-É.
Definition
- 1Beauté gracieuse et élégante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vénusté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En effet tout objet aimable a sa vénusté, c’est-à-dire une portion de cette beauté ineffable qui engendre les amours.
Mais la délicate couleur, la forme mince et souple, la vénusté gracile de cette fille avaient plus d’une fois, dans les longues séances, flotté sous ses yeux devant les feuillets jaunes de Servius ou de Domat.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.