Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

navette

/nəˈvɛt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.13 in modern English

Syllables: navette
IPA: /nəˈvɛt/

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A shuttle bus in France.

noun

A kind of grape that grows in summer.

noun

Obsolete

noun

A lenticular piece of jewelry.

Example Sentences

"To catch the Roissybus from Terminal 1, take the navette from door 22 (line 2)[…]"
"To address this, we explore the case of the navettes, informal vans that operate in the unlikely and unfriendly formal transport landscape of Brussels."
"The summer Navette is less cultivated than the Coleseed, being less prolific, the seeds being much smaller."

Etymology

From French navette. By surface analysis, Latin nav- + -ette.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: navette

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

navettes (plural)

Rhymes With

get let set yet working set met forget internet beat heat bet net

Questions

How do you pronounce navette?: The recorded pronunciation is /nəˈvɛt/.
What does navette mean?: A shuttle bus in France.
Where does navette come from?: It is traced to French.

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