cuivre jaune
\kɥivʁ ʒon\
The verdict
“cuivre jaune” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Laiton, alliage de cuivre et de zinc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cuivre-jaune · cuivre jaune · French
cuivre jaune · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
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Rare enough to double-check
cuivre jaune is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɥivʁ ʒon\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cuivre jaune appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il entendit le bruit de ferraille causé par les clefs que Manon prenait dans un tiroir, et il lui vit allumer la chandelle d’un grand martinet en cuivre jaune.
Le laiton est du cuivre jaune, soit un alliage de cuivre et de zinc, de plomb et d’étain.
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.