couvent
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,043
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
couvent is aFrenchnoun. It means: Maison dans laquelle des religieux ou des religieuses vivent en commun. Pronounced \ku.vɑ̃\. It ranks #7,043 in French word frequency. Often confused with couvert and crèvent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couvent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,043 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for couvent is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.vɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,043 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for couvent, with forms such as "ccouvent", "couevnt", and "couvennt". 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, "couvert", "crèvent", "couverts", 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 couvent, spelled C-O-U-V-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Maison dans laquelle des religieux ou des religieuses vivent en commun.
- 2Ensemble des religieux ou des religieuses qui sont dans une même communauté.
- 3Maison d’éducation dirigée par des religieuses.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccouvent,couevnt,couvennt,couventt,couvetn,couvnet,couvvent,covuent,cuovent,ocuvent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for couvent
Misspelling Variants of "couvent"
Frequency rank: #7,043 in French
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