cuvaison
French, noun/ky.vɛ.zɔ̃/
cuvaison is spelled C-U-V-A-I-S-O-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written French, the 147,615th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cuvaison is a French masculine noun meaning “alternative form of cuvage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de cuver”.
What does cuvaison mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of cuvage
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de cuver.
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 cuvaison
- cuvaisons plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cuvaison?
- /ky.vɛ.zɔ̃/
- /ky.ve.zɔ̃/
- \ky.vɛ.zɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cuvaison in French?
cuvaison appears about once in every 21 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).