vest
\vɛ\
The verdict
“vest” is uncommon French (frequency #78,043 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,043
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mise en possession.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vest · vest · French
vest · rank #78,043 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,043
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vertex
Nearest frequency peer: vertex (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « vest »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- venet
venet
21,961 corpus weight
- Verhaeren
Verhaeren
21,960 corpus weight
- vertex
vertex
21,959 corpus weight
- vest
vest
21,958 corpus weight
- Vicq
Vicq
21,957 corpus weight
- Villèle
Villèle
21,955 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vest » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vest |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #78,043 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vest » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vest is uncommon French at frequency #78,043 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mise en possession.".
vest doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is vest, spelled V-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1Mise en possession.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vest appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Décret du 19 septembre 1790 : Art. 3 : À dater du jour où les tribunaux de districts seront installés dans les pays de nantissement, les formalités de saisine, dessaisine, vest, divest, etc., demeureront abolies.
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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