cuvette
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,251
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
cuvette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Récipient large et peu profond dont on se sert pour se laver, ou destiné à des usages domestiques. Pronounced \ky.vɛt\. Often confused with cette and cuvée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuvette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.vɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,251 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cuvette is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ky.vɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,251 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for cuvette, with forms such as "ccuvette", "cuevtte", and "cuvete". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "cette", "cuvée", "culotte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cuvette, spelled C-U-V-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Récipient large et peu profond dont on se sert pour se laver, ou destiné à des usages domestiques.
- 2Récipient ou sorte d’entonnoir de plomb disposé pour recevoir les eaux d’un tuyau de descente ou les eaux d’une source, d’un aqueduc.
- 3Plaque de métal qui couvre en arrière le mouvement de certaines montres.
- 4Forme concave, creusée ou déprimée.
- 5Configuration de terrain en forme d’entonnoir.
- 6Petit tube de section carrée utilisé pour l'analyse d’échantillons par spectroscopie.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccuvette,cuevtte,cuvete,cuvetet,cuvtete,cuvvette,cvuette,ucvette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cuvette
Misspelling Variants of "cuvette"
Frequency rank: #19,251 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: