vanneau
French, noun/va.no/
vanneau is spelled V-A-N-N-E-A-U (7 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 103,520th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vanneau is a French masculine noun meaning “lapwing (bird)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nom d'une vingtaine d'espèces d'oiseaux petits échassiers limicoles”.
What does vanneau mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelapwing (bird)
- 2
masculinequeen scallop (mollusc)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nom d'une vingtaine d'espèces d'oiseaux petits échassiers limicoles. 2. Autre nom de la pétoncle blanche (ou pétoncle blanc), coquillage en forme de petite coquille Saint-Jacques également appelé peigne operculé et de nom scientifique Aequipecten opercularis'.
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 vanneau
- vanneaux plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vanneau?
- /va.no/
- \va.no\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vanneau
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vanneau in French?
vanneau appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).