découverte

/\de.ku.vɛʁt\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,560

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

découverte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de découvrir, de trouver ce qui n’était pas connu, invention. Pronounced \de.ku.vɛʁt\. It ranks #1,560 in French word frequency. Often confused with découvre and découverts.

Key facts for découverte
PropertyValue
Headworddécouverte
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\de.ku.vɛʁt\
Letters10
Frequency rank#1,560
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for découverte is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.ku.vɛʁt\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,560 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for découverte, with forms such as "dcéouverte", "ddécouverte", and "decouverte". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "découvre", "découverts", "découvertes", 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 découverte, spelled D-É-C-O-U-V-E-R-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de découvrir, de trouver ce qui n’était pas connu, invention.
  2. 2
    Action d’inventer.
  3. 3
    Chose même qu’on a découverte, qu’on a trouvée, trouvaille.
  4. 4
    Partie supérieure d’un gisement qui n’est pas exploitée et qui est évacuée.
  5. 5
    Action d’évacuer cette partie du gisement.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: dcéouverte,ddécouverte,decouverte,déccouverte,découevrte,découveret,découverrte,découvertte,découvetre,découvrete,découvverte,décovuerte,décuoverte,déocuverte,édcouverte

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for découverte

Misspelling Variants of "découverte"

dcéouverte10ddécouverte11decouverte10déccouverte11découevrte10découveret10découverrte11découvertte11
Misspelling Variants of "découverte"

Frequency rank: #1,560 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "découverte"?
"découverte" is spelled D-É-C-O-U-V-E-R-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \de.ku.vɛʁt\.
What does "découverte" mean?
As a noun, "découverte" means: Action de découvrir, de trouver ce qui n’était pas connu, invention.
What words are commonly confused with "découverte"?
"découverte" is commonly confused with "découvre", "découverts", "découvertes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "découverte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "découverte" is \de.ku.vɛʁt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "découverte" come from?
"découverte" 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.