travesti
French, noun/tʁa.vɛs.ti/
travesti is spelled T-R-A-V-E-S-T-I (8 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written French, the 25,925th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Travesti is a French masculine noun meaning “transvestite” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of travestir. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne travestie, quel que soit son genre”.
What does travesti mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetransvestite
verb
- 1
past participle of travestir
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Déguisé. 2. Qui a pris un vêtement lequel n’est pas de son genre ou de sa condition. 3. Où on se déguise. 4. En Amérique latine, qui adopte l'identité de genre transféminine travesti.
noun: 1. Personne travestie, quel que soit son genre. 2. Travestissement, déguisement, costume. 3. Identité de genre transféminine latino-américaine.
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 travesti
- travestis plural
- travestie feminine
- travesties feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce travesti?
- /tʁa.vɛs.ti/
- \tʁa.vɛs.ti\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to travesti
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is travesti in French?
travesti appears 1.4 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).