gavotte
French, noun/ɡa.vɔt/
gavotte is spelled G-A-V-O-T-T-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 114,550th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gavotte is a French feminine noun meaning “gavotte” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Air de danse à deux temps, qui est composé de deux reprises et dont le mouvement est quelquefois vif et gai…”.
What does gavotte mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininegavotte
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Air de danse à deux temps, qui est composé de deux reprises et dont le mouvement est quelquefois vif et gai, quelquefois tendre et lent. 2. Danse de salon dont les pas sont faits sur cet air. 3. Danse bretonne à huit temps. 4. Crêpe dentelle.
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 gavotte
- gavottes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gavotte?
- /ɡa.vɔt/
- \ɡa.vɔt\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gavotte
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gavotte in French?
gavotte appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).