COV
\se o ve\
The verdict
“COV” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,437) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,437
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composé organique volatil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cov · COV · French
COV · rank #48,437 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,437
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH courra
Nearest frequency peer: courra (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « COV »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- courra
courra
51,565 corpus weight
- COV
COV
51,564 corpus weight
- craintif
craintif
51,563 corpus weight
- cravache
cravache
51,562 corpus weight
- crescent
crescent
51,561 corpus weight
- CrossFit
CrossFit
51,560 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « COV » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | COV |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se o ve\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #48,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « COV »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for COV is neighbouring look-alikes ("CV", "Ct", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \se o ve\. Frequency #48,437 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Composé organique volatil.".
Zero misspellings are on record for COV in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "Ct", "CP", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is COV, spelled C-O-V.
Definition
- 1Composé organique volatil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how COV appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du point de vue émission de COV, une heure de fonctionnement de tondeuse à gazon, de tronçonneuse ou de moteur hors-bord équivaut respectivement à un parcours de 80, 320 ou 1300 km en voiture dépolluée; […].
Curieusement, la ville de Varennes et ses voisines de la Rive-Sud ne se sont pas manifestées lors de la première partie des audiences, il y a 15 jours, même si les 64 tonnes de composés organiques volatils (COV), des molécules cancérigènes à l’origine des émissions acides de smog, vont frapper prioritairement la Rive-Sud, située dans le sens des vents dom…
Synonyms
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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