cuvier
\ky.vje\
The verdict
“cuvier” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,791. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,791
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cuve où l’on fait la lessive, où l’on prend son bain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cuvier · cuvier · French
cuvier · rank #36,791 · 6 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,791
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cruciales
Nearest frequency peer: cruciales (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cuvier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- CRM
CRM
63,213 corpus weight
- Croisette
Croisette
63,212 corpus weight
- cruciales
cruciales
63,211 corpus weight
- cuvier
cuvier
63,210 corpus weight
- desdits
desdits
63,209 corpus weight
- desservis
desservis
63,208 corpus weight
What this shows « cuvier » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuvier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.vje\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cuvier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around cuvier (IPA \ky.vje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,791 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Cuve où l’on fait la lessive, où l’on prend son bain.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for cuvier, with forms such as "ccuvier", "cuveir", and "cuvierr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "cuir", "cuve", "chier", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cuvier, spelled C-U-V-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Cuve où l’on fait la lessive, où l’on prend son bain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cuvier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le linge sera trempé pièce à pièce dans la lessive de cendres, ou dans la solution de potasse ; on l’exprimera légèrement et on le déposera à mesure dans le cuvier, en l’étendant de manière qu’il y ait le moins de vide possible, pour que l’eau qui sera jetée dessus ne puisse pas se frayer des routes par lesquelles elle s’écoulerait trop promptement, et qu…
Elle l’avait mené à gauche, près de la cuisine, dans une pièce qui servait de buanderie. Un cuvier y était plein d’eau savonneuse, pendant que le linge, jeté sur des barres de bois, ruisselait.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccuvier
- cuveir
- cuvierr
- cuvvier
- cvuier
- ucvier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cuvier - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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