cuvettes
\ky.vɛt\
The verdict
“cuvettes” is uncommon French (frequency #62,186 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,186
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cuvette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cuvettes · cuvettes · French
cuvettes · rank #62,186 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,186
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH customs
Nearest frequency peer: customs (-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 « cuvettes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- CSO
CSO
37,819 corpus weight
- cumulative
cumulative
37,818 corpus weight
- curée
curée
37,817 corpus weight
- customs
customs
37,816 corpus weight
- cuvettes
cuvettes
37,815 corpus weight
- cyniquement
cyniquement
37,814 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cuvettes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuvettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.vɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,186 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cuvettes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cuvettes is uncommon French at frequency #62,186 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ky.vɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cuvette.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cuvettes, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cuvettes, spelled C-U-V-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cuvette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cuvettes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans ce qui sert parfois de lit au torrent, des blocs et dalles énormes de roches toutes creusées de cuvettes et baignoires naturelles, et dans ces trous, quelques laquets d’eau morte saumâtrisée par la chaleur, immobile sous l’air pesant et sans souffle, incrustant chaque jour plus bas dans la pierre le glauque et gluant revêtement de mucus et d’infusoir…
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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