coverage

noun

The verdict

“coverage” is uncommon French (frequency #89,570 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#89,570
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couverture médiatique, suivi.

Corpus desk

Index FR-coverage · coverage · French

coverage · rank #89,570 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #89,570
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH courront

Nearest frequency peer: courront (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « coverage »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coverage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for coverage
PropertyValue
Headwordcoverage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#89,570
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « coverage » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).coveragetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « courront » (#89,569), « coward » (#89,571), « courbature » (#89,567). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « coverage » est au #89,570. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

coverage is uncommon French at frequency #89,570 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for coverage, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 coverage, spelled C-O-V-E-R-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Couverture médiatique, suivi.
  2. 2
    Signal d'un réseau radiophonique ou téléphonique.
  3. 3
    Gestion, prise en charge, compréhension.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. There was no coverage of the event.

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 "coverage"?
"coverage" is spelled C-O-V-E-R-A-G-E.
What does "coverage" mean?
As a noun, "coverage" means: Couverture médiatique, suivi.
What language does "coverage" come from?
"coverage" 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 "coverage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list