vestale
\vɛs.tal\
The verdict
“vestale” is uncommon French (frequency #69,519 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,519
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vierge consacrée à Vesta.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vestale · vestale · French
vestale · rank #69,519 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,519
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH venter
Nearest frequency peer: venter (-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 « vestale »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- veilleux
veilleux
30,486 corpus weight
- veneur
veneur
30,484 corpus weight
- venter
venter
30,483 corpus weight
- vestale
vestale
30,482 corpus weight
- vexations
vexations
30,481 corpus weight
- vieillissan…
vieillissants
30,479 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vestale » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vestale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛs.tal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vestale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vestale is uncommon French at frequency #69,519 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɛs.tal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for vestale, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is vestale, spelled V-E-S-T-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Vierge consacrée à Vesta.
- 2Femme, jeune fille qui est d’une chasteté exemplaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vestale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Telles étaient jadis les vestales chez les Romains ; telles furent les vierges du soleil dans les temples de Cusco ; telles sont encore, hélas ! parmi nous, ces pauvres filles qui se consacrent, dans l’ombre des cloîtres, à de puérils devoirs par des vœux éternels.
Svelte et immaculée comme le corps chaste d’une vestale aux cheveux ondulés, l’unique colonne demeurée droite jette au temps le défi de sa persistante jeunesse ; mais, les masques sont en poussière, les voix sont éteintes, la vie disparue, qui vibrait sous l’aile pourpre du velarium.
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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