cuivre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,963
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
cuivre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Élément chimique de symbole Cu et de numéro atomique 29. Pronounced \kɥivʁ\. It ranks #5,963 in French word frequency. Often confused with cure and cuve.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuivre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɥivʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,963 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cuivre is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɥivʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,963 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for cuivre, with forms such as "ccuivre", "ciuvre", and "cuirve". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "cure", "cuve", "cuvée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 cuivre, spelled C-U-I-V-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Élément chimique de symbole Cu et de numéro atomique 29.
- 2Corps simple métallique rougeâtre ductile et malléable constitué de cet élément.
- 3Planche de ce métal sur laquelle on a gravé.
- 4Illustration gravée sur une planche de cuivre.
- 5Divers objets de ce métal.
- 6Famille d’instruments à vent de matières très variées (métal, bois, os, ivoire, plastique…) dont le son est créé par la vibration des lèvres du musicien dans une embouchure.
- 7Un oligoélément indispensable aux êtres vivants car catalyseur de nombreuses réactions du métabolisme.
- 8Sel de ce métal utilisé comme fongicide contre les mildious de la pomme de terre et de la vigne.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccuivre,ciuvre,cuirve,cuiver,cuivrre,cuivvre,cuvire,ucivre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cuivre
Misspelling Variants of "cuivre"
Frequency rank: #5,963 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: