couvertures
\ku.vɛʁ.tyʁ\
The verdict
“couvertures” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,477. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,477
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de couverture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couvertures · couvertures · French
couvertures · rank #10,477 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,477
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contours
Nearest frequency peer: contours (-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 « couvertures »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- conservés
conservés
89,527 corpus weight
- considérati…
considérations
89,526 corpus weight
- contours
contours
89,525 corpus weight
- couvertures
couvertures
89,524 corpus weight
- cracher
cracher
89,523 corpus weight
- craintes
craintes
89,522 corpus weight
What this shows « couvertures » 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 | couvertures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.vɛʁ.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #10,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « couvertures »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around couvertures (IPA \ku.vɛʁ.tyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,477 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de couverture.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for couvertures, with forms such as "ccouvertures", "couevrtures", and "couverrtures". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "couvertes", "couverture", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is couvertures, spelled C-O-U-V-E-R-T-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de couverture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how couvertures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Figurez-vous que vers les 7 heures du matin je suis pris d’une tremblade telle que je suis forcé de me mettre au lit, et malgré la clôture des ouvertures, six couvertures et une grosse capote, j’ai été plus d’une heure à me réchauffer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccouvertures
- couevrtures
- couverrtures
- couvertrues
- couverttures
- couvertuers
- couverturess
- couverturres
- couverturse
- couverutres
- couvetrures
- couvretures
- couvvertures
- covuertures
- cuovertures
- ocuvertures
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of couvertures - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).