orvet
French, noun/ɔʁ.vɛ/
orvet is spelled O-R-V-E-T (5 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written French, the 144,513th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Orvet is a French masculine noun meaning “slowworm” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Espèce de lézard sans pattes, d’aspect semblable à un serpent, mais à paupières mobiles, et inoffensif”.
What does orvet mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineslowworm
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Espèce de lézard sans pattes, d’aspect semblable à un serpent, mais à paupières mobiles, et inoffensif.
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 orvet
- orvets plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce orvet?
- /ɔʁ.vɛ/
- \ɔʁ.vɛ\
- \ɔʁ.ve\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is orvet in French?
orvet appears about once in every 20 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).