couvercle
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.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 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.
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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"
Frequency rank: #14,650 in French
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