mauvis
French, noun/mo.vi/
mauvis is spelled M-A-U-V-I-S (6 letters) and appears about once in every 59 million words in written French, the 242,150th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mauvis is a French masculine noun meaning “redwing (bird)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Petite espèce de grive, la grive mauvis”.
What does mauvis mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineredwing (bird)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Petite espèce de grive, la grive mauvis.
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.
How do you pronounce mauvis?
- /mo.vi/
- \mo.vi\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mauvis in French?
mauvis appears about once in every 59 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).