vestigial
\vɛs.ti.ʒjal\
The verdict
“vestigial” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est un vestige des processus d'évolution.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vestigial · vestigial · French
vestigial · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | vestigial |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vɛs.ti.ʒjal\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vestigial » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vestigial is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \vɛs.ti.ʒjal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est un vestige des processus d'évolution.".
vestigial doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is vestigial, spelled V-E-S-T-I-G-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui est un vestige des processus d'évolution.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vestigial appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette première rencontre ne nous a finalement fait découvrir qu’un inconscient « stupide » ancestral et vestigial ! — (Lionel Naccache, Le Nouvel Inconscient : Freud, le Christophe Colomb des neurosciences, Odile Jacob, 2009, page 53)
Chez les vertébrés, les récepteurs des phéromones sont localisés dans un organe particulier des fosses nasales, l’organe voméro-nasal. Chez l’homme, cet organe est vestigial et non fonctionnel.
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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.