veve
noun
veve is a noun meaning “Any of various symbols, like line diagrams, that have religious significance in voodoo, serving as a representation of the loa” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-V-E, and it appears about once in every 52 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of veve is veves or vèvès.
What does veve mean?
noun
- 1
Any of various symbols, like line diagrams, that have religious significance in voodoo, serving as a representation of the loa.
The vèvè for Simbi, lord of healing, bristles with all sorts of allusions to the Kongo medicines of God, leaves, horns, water, and stars.
noun
- 1
Alternative form of veve (“voodoo symbol”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of veve
- veves plural
- vévé
- vèvè
- vever
- vèvès plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is veve?
Veve appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th 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 veve come from?
From Haitian Creole vèvè, from Portuguese viver (“to live”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).