Svelte

Definition: Svelte

Svelte

Adjective

1. Showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters".

2. Gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease.

Date "svelte" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references)

Synonyms: Svelte

Synonyms: lissom (adj), lissome (adj), lithe (adj), lithesome (adj), polished (adj), refined (adj), slender (adj), supple (adj), sylphlike (adj), urbane (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Svelte

Non-English Usage: "Svelte" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (slender, slim, small, svelte, willowy).

"Svelte" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Svelte" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	14	93,893

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "svelte": svelte-looking.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "svelte"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shtathedhur (jimp, slim, willowy). (various references)

Arabic		‏ممشوق (slim), ‏هفهاف (slim), ‏هيفاء (slender), ‏نحيل (bony, gaunt, lean, meager, meagre, poor, raw boned, skinny, slender, slight, slim, small, thin), ‏رشيق (active, agile, airy, alert, brisk, clever, dapper, facile, fleet, fluent, fluid, graceful, lightsome, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, lively, merry, nimble, nippy, quick, ready, sharp, spry, swift, willowy, zippy). (various references)

Bulgarian		строен (slender, slim, upstanding, well knit, well-built, well-made, well-proportioned, well-set, willowy), гъвкав (elastic, facile, flexible, light-heeled, lightsome, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, plastic, pliable, pliant, resilient, sinuous, snaky, soft, supple, tractable, versatile, willowy), грациозен (airy, graceful, lightsome, sylph-like, willowy), изящен (artistic, artistical, bijou, delicate, delicious, distinguished, minikin, neat, nice, peachy, sylph-like). (various references)

Czech		volný (clear, comfortable, for hire, free, lax, liberal, loose, open, slack, spare, unattached, unoccupied, unrestrained, vacant), štíhlý (lean, slender, slight, slim). (various references)

French		svelte. (various references)

German		schlank (neat, scrawny, slender, slenderly, slim, slimly). (various references)

Greek		σβέλτοσ (alert, dapper, fleet, lissom, lissome, mobile, natty, nifty, nimble, nippy, spry), ευκίνητοσ (agile, light footed, lithe, mobile, nimble, nippy, spry, vanquishable, vincible), λυγερή, λεπτόσ (dainty, delicate, exquisite, fine, flimsy, gossamery, lank, nice, rangy, refined, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slimsy, subtile, subtle, tactful, tenuous, thin, ticklish, waspish). (various references)

Hebrew		תמיר (erect, slender, tall, upright, upstanding, willowy), �'מיש (adaptable, elastic, flexible, plastic, pliable, pliant). (various references)

Hungarian		karcsú (attenuate, fine, jimp, lank, lithe, rangy, reedy, slender, slight, slim). (various references)

Indonesian		denok. (various references)

Italian		snello (agile, easy, flowing, scrawny, slender, slim). (various references)

Pig Latin		eltesvay

Portuguese		talhado (cut), gravado (printed). (various references)

Russian		стройный (clean-limbed, gent, harmonic, jimp, shapely, slender, willowy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vitak (jimp, lissom, lissome, slender, slim, slinky, willowy), graciozan (charming, flowing, lightsome, slinky). (various references)

Spanish		esbelto (chic, jimp, neat, scrawny, slender, slim). (various references)

Swedish		slank (slender, willowy). (various references)

Thai		อ้อนแอ้น (effeminate), อ่อนโยน (kind, kindly, mild, soft, suave, tender). (various references)

Turkish		ince yapılı, fidan gibi (lean). (various references)

Ukrainian		стрункий (gimp, jimp, neat, shapely, well knit, well turned). (various references)

Vietnamese		mảnh khảnh (delicate, slender, slight, slim). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	ex-. (various references)
Italian	900-Modern	svelto. (various references)
French	1500-Modern	svelte. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "svelte": sveltely, svelteness, sveltenesses, svelter, sveltest. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Svelte" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Savoldi, Selltiz, Selten, smelte, spelte, sqelt, svelt, svet, svette, svlete, swelte. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "svelte" (pronounced sve"lt)
3	-e" l t	belt, celt, dealt, dwelt, felt, knelt, melt, pelt, smelt, welt.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-l-s-t-v"
	-1 letter: elves, leets, sleet, steel, stele, teels, teles.
	-2 letters: eels, else, eves, lees, leet, lest, lets, seel, teel, tees, tele, tels, vees, vest, vets.
	-3 letters: eel, els, eve, lee, let, lev, see, sel, set, tee, tel, vee, vet.
	-4 letters: el, es, et.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-l-s-t-v"
	+1 letter: evilest, lievest, svelter, twelves, velites, velvets.
	+2 letters: elatives, elevates, evillest, evolutes, leaviest, leverets, levities, loveseat, overlets, sveltely, sveltest, televise, vealiest, veinlets, veloutes, ventless, vestless, vestlike, voteless, wavelets.
	+3 letters: cervelats, chevalets, cleveites, cleverest, coverlets, electives, elevateds, elevators, elevenths, eluviates, evaluates, eventless, festively, foveolets, leftovers, lenitives, levanters, levatores, levigates, levirates, levitates, liveliest, loveliest, loveseats, novelties, overmelts, overslept, relatives, resolvent, restively, revolters, selective, severalty, shelviest, sleevelet, televiews, televised, televises, travelers, trueloves, twelvemos, valerates, valvelets, veinulets, velverets, versatile, vestibule.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
svelte	17
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Svelte

Definition: Svelte

Svelte

Adjective

Synonyms: Svelte

Crosswords: Svelte

Usage Frequency: Svelte

Expression: Svelte

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Modern Translation: Svelte

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Anagrams: Svelte

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