vrillette
French, noun/vʁi.jɛt/
vrillette is spelled V-R-I-L-L-E-T-T-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 83 million words in written French, the 285,390th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vrillette is a French feminine noun meaning “a type of beetle that eats wood: specifically; one of a small number of species of beetle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nom donné à certains coléoptères foreurs dont les larves creusent des galeries dans le bois ou d’autres…”.
What does vrillette mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininea type of beetle that eats wood: specifically; one of a small number of species of beetle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nom donné à certains coléoptères foreurs dont les larves creusent des galeries dans le bois ou d’autres substances d’origine végétale ou animale.
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 vrillette
- vrillettes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vrillette?
- /vʁi.jɛt/
- \vʁi.jɛt\
- [vʁi.lɛt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is vrillette in French?
vrillette appears about once in every 83 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).