avocette
French, noun/a.vɔ.sɛt/
avocette is spelled A-V-O-C-E-T-T-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written French, the 173,977th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Avocette is a French feminine noun meaning “avocet (bird)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nom générique de quatre oiseaux de la famille des Recurvirostridae”.
What does avocette mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineavocet (bird)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nom générique de quatre oiseaux de la famille des Recurvirostridae.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of avocette
- avocettes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce avocette?
- /a.vɔ.sɛt/
- \a.vɔ.sɛt\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to avocette
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is avocette in French?
avocette appears about once in every 30 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).