covoiturage

/\kɔ.vwa.ty.ʁaʒ\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#16,849

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

covoiturage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Utilisation en commun d’une voiture particulière. Pronounced \kɔ.vwa.ty.ʁaʒ\.

Key facts for covoiturage
PropertyValue
Headwordcovoiturage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.vwa.ty.ʁaʒ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#16,849
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of covoiturage in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for covoiturage is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.vwa.ty.ʁaʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,849 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Utilisation en commun d’une voiture particulière.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for covoiturage, with forms such as "ccovoiturage", "cooviturage", and "covioturage". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is covoiturage, spelled C-O-V-O-I-T-U-R-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Utilisation en commun d’une voiture particulière.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccovoiturage,cooviturage,covioturage,covoitruage,covoitturage,covoituarge,covoituraeg,covoituragge,covoiturgae,covoiturrage,covoiutrage,covotiurage,covvoiturage,cvooiturage,ocvoiturage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for covoiturage

Misspelling Variants of "covoiturage"

ccovoiturage12cooviturage11covioturage11covoitruage11covoitturage12covoituarge11covoituraeg11covoituragge12
Misspelling Variants of "covoiturage"

Frequency rank: #16,849 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "covoiturage"?
"covoiturage" is spelled C-O-V-O-I-T-U-R-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.vwa.ty.ʁaʒ\.
What does "covoiturage" mean?
As a noun, "covoiturage" means: Utilisation en commun d’une voiture particulière.
What are common misspellings of "covoiturage"?
Common misspellings include "ccovoiturage", "cooviturage", "covioturage", "covoitruage", "covoitturage". The correct spelling is "covoiturage".
How do you pronounce "covoiturage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "covoiturage" is \kɔ.vwa.ty.ʁaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "covoiturage" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.