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viverra

obsolete

viverra is a noun meaning “An animal of the genus Viverra; a civet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-V-E-R-R-A, and it appears about once in every 59 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of viverra is viverras.

What does viverra mean?

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteAn animal of the genus Viverra; a civet.

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

How common is viverra?

Viverra appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th 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 viverra come from?

Borrowed from Latin vīverra (“ferret”).

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