exuvie
French, noun/ɛɡ.zy.vi/
exuvie is spelled E-X-U-V-I-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 48 million words in written French, the 219,133rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Exuvie is a French feminine noun meaning “exuvia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ancien tégument qui, dans la mue des arthropodes en général et des insectes en particulier, est rejeté lors…”.
What does exuvie mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineexuvia
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ancien tégument qui, dans la mue des arthropodes en général et des insectes en particulier, est rejeté lors de la mue, puis devient coriace. 2. Le même résidu de mue de certains ophidiens.
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 exuvie
- exuvies plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce exuvie?
- /ɛɡ.zy.vi/
- \ɛɡ.zy.vi\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is exuvie in French?
exuvie appears about once in every 48 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).