kvass
/kvɑːs/noun
kvass is a noun meaning “A fermented cereal-based low alcoholic beverage, often flavored with fruit, honey and herbs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-V-A-S-S, and it appears about once in every 24 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of kvass is kvasses.
What does kvass mean?
noun
- 1
A fermented cereal-based low alcoholic beverage, often flavored with fruit, honey and herbs.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce kvass?
- /kvɑːs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-kvass.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of kvass
- kvasses plural
- kvas
- quass
- quas
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is kvass?
Kvass appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st 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).
Kvass in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense fermented cereal-based low alcoholic beverage:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does kvass come from?
Borrowed from Russian квас (kvas).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).