couver
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#51,988
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
couver is aFrenchverb. It means: Couvrir de son corps ses œufs pour entretenir la chaleur qui les fait éclore, en parlant des oiseaux. Pronounced \ku.ve\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couver |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ku.ve\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,988 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for couver is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.ve\. Corpus data places it at rank #51,988 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.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for couver in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 couver, spelled C-O-U-V-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Couvrir de son corps ses œufs pour entretenir la chaleur qui les fait éclore, en parlant des oiseaux.
- 2S'occuper avec soin de quelqu'un, comme un oiseau le fait de ses œufs.
- 3Cacher, préparer sourdement.
- 4Être caché sous la cendre.
- 5(En parlant d'une maladie, d'une catastrophe, d'un coup d'état, d'un sentiment, etc.) se développer, se préparer d'une manière qui n'est pas encore apparente.
- 6Il faut laisser couver cela, se dit d’une chose qu’il ne faut pas se presser de faire.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #51,988 in French
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