Vesta
\vɛs.ta\
The verdict
“Vesta” is uncommon French (frequency #60,462 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,462
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Déesse du feu sacré et du foyer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vesta · Vesta · French
Vesta · rank #60,462 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,462
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vernes
Nearest frequency peer: vernes (-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 « Vesta »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- unioniste
unioniste
39,544 corpus weight
- vala
vala
39,542 corpus weight
- verdoyantes
verdoyantes
39,541 corpus weight
- vernes
vernes
39,540 corpus weight
- Vesta
Vesta
39,539 corpus weight
- Vienna
Vienna
39,537 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Vesta » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Vesta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \vɛs.ta\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Vesta » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Vesta is uncommon French at frequency #60,462 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \vɛs.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Vesta in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Vesta, spelled V-E-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Déesse du feu sacré et du foyer.
- 2Planète mineure, quatrième découverte, la plus brillante de toutes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Vesta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le temple de Vesta.
La pendule, au milieu, représentait un temple de Vesta.
Synonyms
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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