canevas

\kan.va\

/\kan.va\/ noun

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The verdict

“canevas” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,200. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#39,200
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grosse toile, et particulièrement grosse toile écrue et à jour sur laquelle on fait des ouvrages de tapisserie et qui sert à quelques autres usages.

Corpus desk

Index FR-canevas · canevas · French

canevas · rank #39,200 · 10 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #39,200
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH camionneur

Nearest frequency peer: camionneur (-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 « canevas »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « canevas » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

canevas vs cinémas
57% similar
canevas vs cadenas
71% similar
canevas vs cameras
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for canevas
PropertyValue
Headwordcanevas
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kan.va\
Letters7
Frequency rank#39,200
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « canevas »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).canevasse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « camionneur » (#39,199), « caractérisant » (#39,201), « caleçons » (#39,198). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « canevas » est au #39,200. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around canevas (IPA \kan.va\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,200 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for canevas, with forms such as "acnevas", "caenvas", and "caneavs". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "cinémas", "cadenas", "cameras", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is canevas, spelled C-A-N-E-V-A-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Grosse toile, et particulièrement grosse toile écrue et à jour sur laquelle on fait des ouvrages de tapisserie et qui sert à quelques autres usages.
  2. 2
    Bouclier de cuir.
  3. 3
    Paroles qu’on fait d’abord sur un air, sans avoir égard au sens, et pour représenter seulement la mesure et le nombre des syllabes que l’air demande, et qui servent de modèle pour faire d’autres paroles suivies.
  4. 4
    Paroles suivies qui se font sur un air d’après un modèle, ou même sans modèle.
  5. 5
    Projet, ébauche d’un ouvrage d’esprit.
  6. 6
    Zone graphique permettant de dessiner.
  7. 7
    Réseau constitué par des familles de lignes délimitant des figures polygonales.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how canevas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Gros canevas. Canevas fin.
  2. Tracer un dessin sur un canevas, ou simplement Tracer un canevas.

This word in other languages

canvas(English)tela(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acnevas
  • caenvas
  • caneavs
  • canevass
  • canevsa
  • canevvas
  • cannevas
  • canveas
  • ccanevas
  • cnaevas

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of canevas - 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.

acnevas2caenvas2caneavs2canevass1canevsa2canevvas1cannevas1canveas2
Edit distance from "canevas"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "canevas"?
"canevas" is spelled C-A-N-E-V-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kan.va\.
What does "canevas" mean?
As a noun, "canevas" means: Grosse toile, et particulièrement grosse toile écrue et à jour sur laquelle on fait des ouvrages de tapisserie et qui sert à quelques autres usages.
What words are commonly confused with "canevas"?
"canevas" is commonly confused with "cinémas", "cadenas", "cameras". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "canevas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "canevas" is \kan.va\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "canevas" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "canevas", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

censeur#39,203Béatrix#39,195branlée#39,191chutent#39,210

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Chaillot10 variantscivitas10 variantsClèves10 variantsbarillet10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list