cuveau
French, noun/ky.vo/
cuveau is spelled C-U-V-E-A-U (6 letters) and appears about once in every 79 million words in written French, the 279,127th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cuveau is a French masculine noun meaning “tub (small vat)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Petite cuve”.
What does cuveau mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetub (small vat)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Petite cuve.
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 cuveau
- cuveaux plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cuveau?
- /ky.vo/
- \ky.vo\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cuveau in French?
cuveau appears about once in every 79 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).