couleuvre
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#45,528
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
couleuvre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Serpent de taille moyenne ou grande, qui a un petit nombre de grandes écailles entre les yeux et la bouche, à pupille circulaire, à longue queue, et qui se nourrit de petits rongeurs. Pronounced \ku.lœvʁ\. Often confused with couleuvres and couleur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couleuvre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.lœvʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #45,528 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for couleuvre is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.lœvʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #45,528 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for couleuvre, with forms such as "ccouleuvre", "colueuvre", and "coueluvre". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "couleuvres", "couleur", "couleurs", 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 couleuvre, spelled C-O-U-L-E-U-V-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Serpent de taille moyenne ou grande, qui a un petit nombre de grandes écailles entre les yeux et la bouche, à pupille circulaire, à longue queue, et qui se nourrit de petits rongeurs.
- 2Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté en pal et ondoyant. Il ne faut pas la confondre avec la guivre. À rapprocher de bisse et serpent.
- 3Humiliation, acte qu’on est forcé d’accepter contre son gré.
- 4Grosse fissure résultant d'un défaut de construction. ^([1])
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccouleuvre,colueuvre,coueluvre,couleurve,couleuver,couleuvrre,couleuvvre,coulevure,coulleuvre,couluevre,cuoleuvre,oculeuvre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for couleuvre
Misspelling Variants of "couleuvre"
Frequency rank: #45,528 in French
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