mauve
French, noun/mov/
mauve is spelled M-A-U-V-E (5 letters) and appears 1.7 times per million words in written French, the 22,520th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mauve is a French feminine noun meaning “mallow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Plante de la famille des malvacées, du genre Malva ou de genres voisins, fréquemment employée en médecine…”.
What does mauve mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemallow
noun
- 1
masculinemauve
adjective
- 1
mauve
noun
- 1
femininemew, gull, seagull
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. De la couleur de la fleur du même nom, violet pâle. #D473D4
noun: 1. Plante de la famille des malvacées, du genre Malva ou de genres voisins, fréquemment employée en médecine comme émolliente et adoucissante.
noun: 1. Violet pâle. #D473D4 2. Violet (les couleurs mauve et violet y sont parfois distinctes, souvent pas). #8806CE
noun: 1. Mouette.
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 mauve
- mauves plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mauve?
- /mov/
- \mov\
- [mov]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mauve
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mauve in French?
mauve appears 1.7 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).