valet
French, noun/va.lɛ/
valet is spelled V-A-L-E-T (5 letters) and appears 3.7 times per million words in written French, the 13,759th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Valet is a French masculine noun meaning “a male attendant of a knight or a lord” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Jeune écuyer au service d’un seigneur”.
What does valet mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea male attendant of a knight or a lord
- 2
masculineofficer belonging to the king's house or a princely house, also valet de chambre
- 3
masculinea male servant, a footman
- 4
masculinea wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing, also valet de nuit
- 5
masculinejack
- 6
masculinea holdfast (a hooked tool to hold a workpiece down to a workbench)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Jeune écuyer au service d’un seigneur. 2. Dénomination des domestiques et serviteurs qui tenaient certains offices dans la maison (du roi et dans celles des princes, des nobles…) dans une ferme ou dans la société civile dont seules quelques dénominations sont encore en usage. (voir dérivés fonctions) 3. Carte sur laquelle est peinte la figure d’un page ou valet, et qui existe dans chacune des quatre couleurs d’un jeu. 4. Désigne certains outils, accessoires ou organes mécaniques qui font la fonction d'un serviteur ou d'une aide.
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 valet
- valets plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce valet?
- /va.lɛ/
- \va.lɛ\
- [va.lɛ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to valet
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is valet in French?
valet appears 3.7 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).