cadavres
\ka.davʁ\
The verdict
“cadavres” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,349. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,349
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cadavre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cadavres · cadavres · French
cadavres · rank #8,349 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,349
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Burkina
Nearest frequency peer: Burkina (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cadavres »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bonbons
bonbons
91,655 corpus weight
- brève
brève
91,654 corpus weight
- Burkina
Burkina
91,653 corpus weight
- cadavres
cadavres
91,652 corpus weight
- calibre
calibre
91,651 corpus weight
- carrières
carrières
91,650 corpus weight
What this shows « cadavres » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cadavres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.davʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,349 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cadavres »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around cadavres (IPA \ka.davʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,349 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de cadavre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for cadavres, with forms such as "acdavres", "caadvres", and "cadarves". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "cadres", "cadavre", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cadavres, spelled C-A-D-A-V-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cadavre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cadavres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est ainsi que l’année dernière, nous avons trouvé plusieurs cadavres de cet insecte autour de spécimens de cette dangereuse espèce rencontrée sur la lisière du bois d’Acoz, où elle s’est spontanéisée depuis quelque vingt ans.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acdavres
- caadvres
- cadarves
- cadavers
- cadavress
- cadavrres
- cadavrse
- cadavvres
- caddavres
- cadvares
- ccadavres
- cdaavres
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cadavres - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).