vétiver
French, noun\ve.ti.vɛʁ\
vétiver is spelled V-É-T-I-V-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 110,748th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vétiver is a French masculine noun meaning “vetiver” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Plante graminée, dont les racines très odorantes servent à préserver le linge et les vêtements de l’atteinte…”.
What does vétiver mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinevetiver
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Plante graminée, dont les racines très odorantes servent à préserver le linge et les vêtements de l’atteinte des insectes.
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 vétiver
- vétivers plural
- vétyver
- vittie-vayr rare obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vétiver?
- \ve.ti.vɛʁ\
- [ve.ti.vɛʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vétiver
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vétiver in French?
vétiver appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).