fauvist
adjective, noun
fauvist is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to fauvism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-U-V-I-S-T, and it appears about once in every 51 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fauvist mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to fauvism.
noun
- 1
An artist who used this style.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fauvist
- fauvists plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fauvist?
Fauvist appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fauvist come from?
Borrowed from French fauviste.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).