duvet
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,287
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
duvet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble des plumes courtes, molles et frisées, qui poussent en premier sur le corps des oiseaux et est particulièrement fournie chez les cygnes et les oies. Pronounced \dy.vɛ\. Often confused with due and det.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | duvet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dy.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #25,287 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for duvet is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dy.vɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #25,287 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for duvet, with forms such as "dduvet", "duevt", and "duvett". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "due", "det", "dure", 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 duvet, spelled D-U-V-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des plumes courtes, molles et frisées, qui poussent en premier sur le corps des oiseaux et est particulièrement fournie chez les cygnes et les oies.
- 2Poils courts de la toison de certains animaux.
- 3Premier poil qui vient au menton et aux joues des jeunes gens.
- 4Poils fins et courts qui recouvrent certaines parties du corps.
- 5Espèce de coton qui vient sur certains fruits.
- 6Sac de couchage.
- 7Couette épaisse.
- 8Légère couche d'un matériau.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: dduvet,duevt,duvett,duvte,duvvet,dvuet,udvet
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Misspelling Variants of "duvet"
Frequency rank: #25,287 in French
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