corvée
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,583
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
corvée is aFrenchnoun. It means: Travail et service gratuit qui était dû par le paysan à son seigneur. Pronounced \kɔʁ.ve\. Often confused with crée and créée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corvée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.ve\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,583 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for corvée is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔʁ.ve\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,583 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for corvée, with forms such as "ccorvée", "corrvée", and "corvee". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "crée", "créée", "cover", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is corvée, spelled C-O-R-V-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Travail et service gratuit qui était dû par le paysan à son seigneur.
- 2Prestation en nature ou travail exigible des habitants d’une commune pour l’entretien des chemins vicinaux.
- 3Ensemble des travaux que font tour à tour les soldats d’une compagnie.
- 4Travail, soit du corps, soit de l’esprit, qu’on fait à regret, avec peine et sans profit.
- 5Travail, soit du corps, soit de l’esprit, qu’on fait à regret, avec peine et sans profit.
- 6Rassemblement volontaire et à titre gracieux de gens pour venir en aide ad hoc à quelqu'un dans le besoin (lever une grange, faire les foins, etc.).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccorvée,corrvée,corvee,corveé,corvvée,coréve,covrée,crovée,ocrvée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for corvée
Misspelling Variants of "corvée"
Frequency rank: #21,583 in French
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Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: