ouvre-boite
\u.vʁə.bwat\
The verdict
“ouvre-boite” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ustensile servant à ouvrir une boite de conserve métalliques lorsqu'elle est dépourvue de système d’ouverture simplifié.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ouvre-boite · ouvre-boite · French
ouvre-boite · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" 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 | ouvre-boite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \u.vʁə.bwat\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
ouvre-boite is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \u.vʁə.bwat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ustensile servant à ouvrir une boite de conserve métalliques lorsqu'elle est dépourvue de système d’ouverture simplifié.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ouvre-boite in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ouvre-boite, spelled O-U-V-R-E---B-O-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Ustensile servant à ouvrir une boite de conserve métalliques lorsqu'elle est dépourvue de système d’ouverture simplifié.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ouvre-boite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il prit son ouvre-boite pour ouvrir une boite de cassoulet.
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.