couvercle
French, noun/ku.vɛʁkl/
couvercle is spelled C-O-U-V-E-R-C-L-E (9 letters) and appears 3.4 times per million words in written French, the 14,626th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Couvercle is a French masculine noun meaning “lid, cap, cover” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pièce fixée ou non à un récipient et qui s’adapte à son ouverture pour le fermer plus ou moins hermétiquement”.
What does couvercle mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelid, cap, cover
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pièce fixée ou non à un récipient et qui s’adapte à son ouverture pour le fermer plus ou moins hermétiquement. 2. Quelque chose qui cache, qui amortit, qui étouffe.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of couvercle
- couvercles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce couvercle?
- /ku.vɛʁkl/
- \ku.vɛʁkl\
- [ku.vɛʁkl]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to couvercle
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is couvercle in French?
couvercle appears 3.4 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).