cavalry
/ˈkæ.vəl.ɹi/noun
cavalry is spelled C-A-V-A-L-R-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is calvalry: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 37 of all searches for the word. Cavalry is a noun meaning “The military arm of service that fights while riding horses”. The plural of cavalry is cavalries.
How many letters and syllables are in cavalry?
| Letters | 7: C-A-V-A-L-R-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.3 times per million words; the 9,594th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, calvalry, about 60 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell cavalry?
Cavalry is spelled C-A-V-A-L-R-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 37 of the searches for cavalry in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is cavalry?
Cavalry appears 6.3 times per million words in written English, the 9,594th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce cavalry?
- /ˈkæ.vəl.ɹi/
- /ˈkæl.və.ɹi/
Cavalry has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-cavalry.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with cavalry
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with cavalry?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as cavalry.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: calvary.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of cavalry
- cavalries plural
- cavalery
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does cavalry mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The military arm of service that fights while riding horses.
- 2
An individual unit of this arm of service.
- 3
The branch of the military transported by fast light vehicles, also known as mechanized cavalry.
- 4
A source of rescue, especially in an emergency.
call in the cavalry
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate cavalry?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of cavalry: cav.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Cavalry in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense military service that fights with riding horses:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cavalerie |
| German | Reiterei, Kavallerie |
| Portuguese | cavalaria |
| Spanish | caballería |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does cavalry come from?
From Middle French cavalerie, in turn from Italian cavalleria. Recorded in English from the 1540s. Doublet of chivalry.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).