couvait
\ku.vɛ\
The verdict
“couvait” is uncommon French (frequency #71,396 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,396
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de couver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couvait · couvait · French
couvait · rank #71,396 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,396
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH courser
Nearest frequency peer: courser (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « couvait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coupante
coupante
28,608 corpus weight
- courrais
courrais
28,607 corpus weight
- courser
courser
28,606 corpus weight
- couvait
couvait
28,605 corpus weight
- couvrit
couvrit
28,604 corpus weight
- crespo
crespo
28,603 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « couvait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couvait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ku.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « couvait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
couvait is uncommon French at frequency #71,396 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ku.vɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de couver.".
couvait has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is couvait, spelled C-O-U-V-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de couver.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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