cuvier
"cuvier" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cuvier” is uncommon English (frequency #62,078 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,078
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fermenting room of a winery
Corpus desk
Index EN-cuvier · cuvier · English
cuvier · rank #62,078 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,078
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cyclotron
Nearest frequency peer: cyclotron (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “cuvier”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Cranford
Cranford
37,927 corpus weight
- Crombie
Crombie
37,925 corpus weight
- cuvier
cuvier
37,923 corpus weight
- cyclotron
cyclotron
37,922 corpus weight
- Dabney
Dabney
37,921 corpus weight
- Dacia
Dacia
37,920 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cuvier” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuvier |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,078 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cuvier” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cuvier is uncommon English at frequency #62,078 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fermenting room of a winery".
cuvier doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French cuvier (“vat”). The correct English form is cuvier, spelled C-U-V-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Fermenting room of a winery
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cuvier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The winery, she said, has a fermenting room – a cuvier – "that[…] is the most modern you can find today."
Etymology
Borrowed from French cuvier (“vat”).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).