ivoire
French, noun/i.vwaʁ/
ivoire is spelled I-V-O-I-R-E (6 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written French, the 4,050th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ivoire is a French masculine noun meaning “ivory” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Substance dure, blanche, opaque qui est la matière principale des dents et des défenses d’animaux comme…”.
What does ivoire mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineivory
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Substance dure, blanche, opaque qui est la matière principale des dents et des défenses d’animaux comme l’éléphant, l’hippopotame, le morse. 2. Objet d’art travaillé en ivoire. 3. Substance majoritaire constituant la dent et plus généralement l’organe dentaire. 4. D’un blanc parfait.
adjective: 1. Relatif à la couleur du même nom.
adjective: 1. Qui a la couleur, la consistance ou l’apparence de l’ivoire.
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 ivoire
- ivoires plural
- ivoirés plural masculine
- ivoirée singular feminine
- ivoirées plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ivoire?
- /i.vwaʁ/
- \i.vwaʁ\
- \i.vwa.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ivoire
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ivoire in French?
ivoire appears 19 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).