couvert
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,130
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
couvert is anFrenchadj. It means: Protégé par-dessus, muni d’un toit, d’un couvercle, d’une couverture. Pronounced \ku.vɛʁ\. It ranks #3,130 in French word frequency. Often confused with cover and couvre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couvert |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ku.vɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,130 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for couvert is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ku.vɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,130 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for couvert, with forms such as "ccouvert", "couevrt", and "couverrt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cover", "couvre", "covers", and more, 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 couvert, spelled C-O-U-V-E-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Protégé par-dessus, muni d’un toit, d’un couvercle, d’une couverture.
- 2Obturé, bouché.
- 3Dissimulé sous quelque chose, masqué, caché.
- 4Dissimulé masqué, caché.
- 5Habillé, vêtu.
- 6Chapeauté.
- 7Voilée, coiffée du hijab ou du tchador.
- 8Nuageux ; voilé ; assombri.
- 9Maintenu sous la cendre en parlant du feu, par extension, atténué en parlant des plaques chauffantes.
- 10Atténué, rauque, peu sonore, en parlant de la voix.
- 11Peu ou pas clair, fuyant, voilé, dissimulé.
- 12Se dit d’une tour, d’un château muni d’un toit pointu ou d’une coupe de son couvercle
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccouvert,couevrt,couverrt,couvertt,couvetr,couvret,couvvert,covuert,cuovert,ocuvert
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for couvert
Misspelling Variants of "couvert"
Frequency rank: #3,130 in French
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