couvercle

/\ku.vɛʁkl\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#14,650

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

couvercle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce fixée ou non à un récipient et qui s’adapte à son ouverture pour le fermer plus ou moins hermétiquement. Pronounced \ku.vɛʁkl\. Often confused with couverte.

Key facts for couvercle
PropertyValue
Headwordcouvercle
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ku.vɛʁkl\
Letters9
Frequency rank#14,650
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of couvercle in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for couvercle is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.vɛʁkl\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,650 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for couvercle, with forms such as "ccouvercle", "couevrcle", and "couvecrle". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "couverte", 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 couvercle, spelled C-O-U-V-E-R-C-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pièce fixée ou non à un récipient et qui s’adapte à son ouverture pour le fermer plus ou moins hermétiquement.
  2. 2
    Quelque chose qui cache, qui amortit, qui étouffe.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccouvercle,couevrcle,couvecrle,couverccle,couvercel,couverclle,couverlce,couverrcle,couvrecle,couvvercle,covuercle,cuovercle,ocuvercle

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for couvercle

Misspelling Variants of "couvercle"

ccouvercle10couevrcle9couvecrle9couverccle10couvercel9couverclle10couverlce9couverrcle10
Misspelling Variants of "couvercle"

Frequency rank: #14,650 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "couvercle"?
"couvercle" is spelled C-O-U-V-E-R-C-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ku.vɛʁkl\.
What does "couvercle" mean?
As a noun, "couvercle" means: Pièce fixée ou non à un récipient et qui s’adapte à son ouverture pour le fermer plus ou moins hermétiquement.
What words are commonly confused with "couvercle"?
"couvercle" is commonly confused with "couverte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "couvercle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "couvercle" is \ku.vɛʁkl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "couvercle" come from?
"couvercle" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.