cuivre jaune
\kɥivʁ ʒon\
The verdict
“cuivre jaune” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Laiton, alliage de cuivre et de zinc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuivre jaune |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɥivʁ ʒon\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cuivre jaune” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cuivre jaune is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɥivʁ ʒon\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for cuivre jaune in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 cuivre jaune, spelled C-U-I-V-R-E- -J-A-U-N-E.
Definition
- 1Laiton, alliage de cuivre et de zinc.
- 2Ancien synonyme de chalcopyrite.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “cuivre jaune”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-U-I-V-R-E- -J-A-U-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɥivʁ ʒon\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.