cuvette

/\ky.vɛt\/ noun

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.

Key facts for cuvette
PropertyValue
Headwordcuvette
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ky.vɛt\
Letters7
Frequency rank#19,251
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cuvette in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Récipient large et peu profond dont on se sert pour se laver, ou destiné à des usages domestiques.
  2. 2
    Récipient 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.
  3. 3
    Plaque de métal qui couvre en arrière le mouvement de certaines montres.
  4. 4
    Forme concave, creusée ou déprimée.
  5. 5
    Configuration de terrain en forme d’entonnoir.
  6. 6
    Petit tube de section carrée utilisé pour l'analyse d’échantillons par spectroscopie.

Synonyms

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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"

ccuvette8cuevtte7cuvete6cuvetet7cuvtete7cuvvette8cvuette7ucvette7
Misspelling Variants of "cuvette"

Frequency rank: #19,251 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cuvette"?
"cuvette" is spelled C-U-V-E-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ky.vɛt\.
What does "cuvette" mean?
As a noun, "cuvette" means: Récipient large et peu profond dont on se sert pour se laver, ou destiné à des usages domestiques.
What words are commonly confused with "cuvette"?
"cuvette" is commonly confused with "cette", "cuvée", "culotte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cuvette"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cuvette" is \ky.vɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cuvette" come from?
"cuvette" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.