canevas
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#39,200
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
canevas is aFrenchnoun. It 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. Pronounced \kan.va\. Often confused with cinémas and cadenas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canevas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kan.va\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for canevas is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kan.va\. Corpus data places it at rank #39,200 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for canevas, with forms such as "acnevas", "caenvas", and "caneavs". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "cinémas", "cadenas", "cameras", 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 canevas, spelled C-A-N-E-V-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grosse toile, et particulièrement grosse toile écrue et à jour sur laquelle on fait des ouvrages de tapisserie et qui sert à quelques autres usages.
- 2Bouclier de cuir.
- 3Paroles 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.
- 4Paroles suivies qui se font sur un air d’après un modèle, ou même sans modèle.
- 5Projet, ébauche d’un ouvrage d’esprit.
- 6Zone graphique permettant de dessiner.
- 7Réseau constitué par des familles de lignes délimitant des figures polygonales.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acnevas,caenvas,caneavs,canevass,canevsa,canevvas,cannevas,canveas,ccanevas,cnaevas
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Misspelling Variants of "canevas"
Frequency rank: #39,200 in French
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