gavial
French, noun/ɡa.vjal/
gavial is spelled G-A-V-I-A-L (6 letters) and appears about once in every 56 million words in written French, the 236,816th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gavial is a French masculine noun meaning “gharial” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Reptile crocodilien de la famille des gavialidés au museau mince et allongé qui vit en Inde”.
What does gavial mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinegharial
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Reptile crocodilien de la famille des gavialidés au museau mince et allongé qui vit en Inde.
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 gavial
- gaviaux plural
- gavials plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gavial?
- /ɡa.vjal/
- \ɡa.vjal\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gavial
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gavial in French?
gavial appears about once in every 56 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).