découvrement
\de.ku.vʁə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“découvrement” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de découvrir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decouvrement · découvrement · French
découvrement · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | découvrement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ku.vʁə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « découvrement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
découvrement is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.ku.vʁə.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de découvrir.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for découvrement, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is découvrement, spelled D-É-C-O-U-V-R-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de découvrir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how découvrement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai fait prier quelques personnes intelligentes de vouloir bien changer mon mot de découverte… on s’excusa sur la disette de notre langue qui ne s’accommode ni de découvrement comme au siècle passé, ni de révélation, ni d’apocalypse, termes qu’elle a empruntés des latins pour d’autres usages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.