bouvet
French, noun/bu.vɛ/
bouvet is spelled B-O-U-V-E-T (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 40,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bouvet is a French masculine noun meaning “rabbet plane” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rabot à faire des rainures ou des languettes”.
What does bouvet mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerabbet plane
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Rabot à faire des rainures ou des languettes.
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 bouvet
- bouvets plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bouvet?
- /bu.vɛ/
- \bu.vɛ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is bouvet in French?
bouvet appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).