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varan

noun

varan is a noun meaning “The monitor lizard” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-R-A-N, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of varan is varans.

What does varan mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The monitor lizard.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of varan

  • varans plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is varan?

Varan appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th 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 varan come from?

Derived from French varan. Doublet of worral.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).