couvertures

\ku.vɛʁ.tyʁ\

/\ku.vɛʁ.tyʁ\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows « couvertures » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

couvertures vs couvertes
82% similar
couvertures vs couverture
91% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for couvertures
PropertyValue
Headwordcouvertures
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ku.vɛʁ.tyʁ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#10,477
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « couvertures »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).couverturesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « contours » (#10,476), « cracher » (#10,478), « considérations » (#10,475). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « couvertures » est au #10,477. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Pluriel de couverture.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how couvertures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

ccouvertures1couevrtures2couverrtures1couvertrues2couverttures1couvertuers2couverturess1couverturres1
Edit distance from "couvertures"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "couvertures"?
"couvertures" is spelled C-O-U-V-E-R-T-U-R-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ku.vɛʁ.tyʁ\.
What does "couvertures" mean?
As a noun, "couvertures" means: Pluriel de couverture.
What words are commonly confused with "couvertures"?
"couvertures" is commonly confused with "couvertes", "couverture". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "couvertures"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "couvertures" is \ku.vɛʁ.tyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "couvertures" come from?
"couvertures" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "couvertures", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list