cuvier
French, noun/ky.vje/
cuvier is spelled C-U-V-I-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 36,757th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cuvier is a French masculine noun meaning “vat (large receptacle for liquids, etc.)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Cuve où l’on fait la lessive, où l’on prend son bain”.
What does cuvier mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinevat (large receptacle for liquids, etc.)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cuve où l’on fait la lessive, où l’on prend son bain.
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 cuvier
- cuviers plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cuvier?
- /ky.vje/
- \ky.vje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cuvier in French?
cuvier appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).