couvrait
\ku.vʁɛ\
The verdict
“couvrait” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,817. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,817
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de couvrir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couvrait · couvrait · French
couvrait · rank #22,817 · 11 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,817
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH council
Nearest frequency peer: council (-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 « couvrait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- corporate
corporate
77,187 corpus weight
- cotée
cotée
77,186 corpus weight
- council
council
77,185 corpus weight
- couvrait
couvrait
77,184 corpus weight
- crapaud
crapaud
77,183 corpus weight
- credo
credo
77,182 corpus weight
What this shows « couvrait » 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 | couvrait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ku.vʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « couvrait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around couvrait (IPA \ku.vʁɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,817 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de couvrir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for couvrait, with forms such as "ccouvrait", "courvait", and "couvarit". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "couvrir", "couvrant", "couvrent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is couvrait, spelled C-O-U-V-R-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de couvrir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how couvrait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Maintenant, la nuit se refaisait impénétrable, mystérieuse, indifférente aussi au drame qu’elle couvrait de son manteau d’ombre…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccouvrait
- courvait
- couvarit
- couvraitt
- couvrati
- couvriat
- couvrrait
- couvvrait
- covurait
- cuovrait
- ocuvrait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of couvrait - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).