cuver
\ky.ve\
The verdict
“cuver” is uncommon French (frequency #94,673 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,673
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Demeurer dans la cuve en parlant du vin nouveau qu’on y laisse avec la rafle durant quelques jours, pour qu’il se fasse, pour qu’il fermente.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cuver · cuver · French
cuver · rank #94,673 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,673
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cupra
Nearest frequency peer: Cupra (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cuver »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cumulonimbus
cumulonimbus
5,330 corpus weight
- Cupra
Cupra
5,329 corpus weight
- cuver
cuver
5,328 corpus weight
- cyclomoteurs
cyclomoteurs
5,327 corpus weight
- cytologie
cytologie
5,326 corpus weight
- cèpe
cèpe
5,325 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cuver » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuver |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ky.ve\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #94,673 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cuver » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cuver is uncommon French at frequency #94,673 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ky.ve\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Demeurer dans la cuve en parlant du vin nouveau qu’on y laisse avec la rafle durant quelques jours, pour qu’il se fasse, pour qu’il fermente.".
cuver has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cuver, spelled C-U-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Demeurer dans la cuve en parlant du vin nouveau qu’on y laisse avec la rafle durant quelques jours, pour qu’il se fasse, pour qu’il fermente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cuver appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n'est point acquis en bonne œnologie que l'on doive cuver aussi long-temps, et les principes à cet égard peuvent et doivent varier avec la qualité du raisin, et ce que l'on se propose d'en faire.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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