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cuvee

/kuˈveɪ/noun

cuvee is spelled C-U-V-E-E: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cuvee means “Alternative form of cuvée” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cuvee is cuvées or cuvees.

How many letters and syllables are in cuvee?

Letters5: C-U-V-E-E
In writingabout once in every 13 million words; the 106,501st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is cuvee?

Cuvee appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce cuvee?

  • /kuˈveɪ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of cuvee

  • cuvées plural
  • cuvees plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does cuvee mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of cuvée.

noun

as cuvée
  1. 1

    Wine produced from a mixture of several grape varieties.

  2. 2

    The first (and highest quality) grape juice to be produced, from a given batch of gently pressed grapes.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does cuvee come from?

From French cuvée, from cuve (“vat, tank”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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