cuivreux
French, adjective/kɥi.vʁø/
cuivreux is spelled C-U-I-V-R-E-U-X (8 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 119,721st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cuivreux is a French adjective meaning “cuprous (all senses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui comporte du cuivre”.
What does cuivreux mean in English?
adjective
- 1
cuprous (all senses)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui comporte du cuivre. 2. Qualifie un ion de cuivre dans sa forme la plus réduite.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cuivreux
- cuivreuse feminine
- cuivreuses feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cuivreux?
- /kɥi.vʁø/
- \kɥi.vʁø\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cuivreux
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cuivreux in French?
cuivreux appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).