couvercle
\ku.vɛʁkl\
The verdict
“couvercle” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,650. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,650
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce fixée ou non à un récipient et qui s’adapte à son ouverture pour le fermer plus ou moins hermétiquement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couvercle · couvercle · French
couvercle · rank #14,650 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #14,650
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coussin
Nearest frequency peer: coussin (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « couvercle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coordonner
coordonner
85,354 corpus weight
- coupées
coupées
85,353 corpus weight
- coussin
coussin
85,352 corpus weight
- couvercle
couvercle
85,351 corpus weight
- cristiano
cristiano
85,350 corpus weight
- croisent
croisent
85,349 corpus weight
What this shows « couvercle » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couvercle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.vɛʁkl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,650 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « couvercle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around couvercle (IPA \ku.vɛʁkl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,650 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for couvercle, with forms such as "ccouvercle", "couevrcle", and "couvecrle". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "couverte", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is couvercle, spelled C-O-U-V-E-R-C-L-E.
Definition
- 1Pièce fixée ou non à un récipient et qui s’adapte à son ouverture pour le fermer plus ou moins hermétiquement.
- 2Quelque chose qui cache, qui amortit, qui étouffe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how couvercle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On n’entendait que le roulement monotone de l’eau heurtant à petits coups semi-métalliques le couvercle en fonte de la marmite […].
Le boiteux empoigna sa valise par terre, la plaça sur une chaise et souleva le couvercle.
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
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of couvercle - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).