couvoir
\ku.vwaʁ\
The verdict
“couvoir” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Local, pièce pour couver artificiellement des œufs, notamment de poules.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couvoir · couvoir · French
couvoir · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couvoir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.vwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « couvoir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
couvoir is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.vwaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Local, pièce pour couver artificiellement des œufs, notamment de poules.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for couvoir, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is couvoir, spelled C-O-U-V-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1Local, pièce pour couver artificiellement des œufs, notamment de poules.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how couvoir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
S’il s'agit d’une exploitation importante, une pièce, à usage de couvoir, devra être édifiée spécialement.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.