couvercles
\ku.vɛʁkl\
The verdict
“couvercles” is uncommon French (frequency #51,385 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,385
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de couvercle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couvercles · couvercles · French
couvercles · rank #51,385 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,385
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cousues
Nearest frequency peer: cousues (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « couvercles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- corrigeant
corrigeant
48,619 corpus weight
- cosaque
cosaque
48,618 corpus weight
- cousues
cousues
48,617 corpus weight
- couvercles
couvercles
48,616 corpus weight
- crevant
crevant
48,615 corpus weight
- crowd
crowd
48,613 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « couvercles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couvercles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.vɛʁkl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,385 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « couvercles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
couvercles is uncommon French at frequency #51,385 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.vɛʁkl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de couvercle.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for couvercles, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is couvercles, spelled C-O-U-V-E-R-C-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de couvercle.
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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