goyave
French, noun/ɡɔ.jav/
goyave is spelled G-O-Y-A-V-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 73,020th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Goyave is a French feminine noun meaning “guava (fruit)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fruit tropical comestible originaire des Amériques produit par un arbre, le goyavier, de forme ronde, ovale…”.
What does goyave mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineguava (fruit)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fruit tropical comestible originaire des Amériques produit par un arbre, le goyavier, de forme ronde, ovale, ou parfois en forme de poire, qui mesure de 5 à 7 cm à l’état sauvage mais peut être jusqu'à deux fois plus grosse sous sa forme cultivée.
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 goyave
- goyaves plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce goyave?
- /ɡɔ.jav/
- /ɡwa.jav/
- \ɡwa.jav\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to goyave
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is goyave in French?
goyave appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).