caravane
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,329
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
caravane is aFrenchnoun. It means: Convoi de marchands, de voyageurs ou de pèlerins qui vont de compagnie dans les déserts de l’Asie mineure, de l’Arabie ou de l’Afrique. Pronounced \ka.ʁa.van\. Often confused with cravate and catalane.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caravane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁa.van\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,329 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for caravane is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ʁa.van\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,329 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for caravane, with forms such as "acravane", "caarvane", and "caraavne". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "cravate", "catalane", "caravanes", and more, 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 caravane, spelled C-A-R-A-V-A-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Convoi de marchands, de voyageurs ou de pèlerins qui vont de compagnie dans les déserts de l’Asie mineure, de l’Arabie ou de l’Afrique.
- 2Ensemble d’objets alignés les uns à la suite des autres.
- 3Plusieurs personnes ou objets qui se déplacent de concert.
- 4Groupe d’alpinistes se déplaçant ensemble.
- 5Véhicule ou remorque qui, équipé pour le séjour ou l’exercice d’une activité, conserve en permanence les moyens de mobilité lui permettant d’être déplacé par simple traction.
- 6Aventure amoureuse.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acravane,caarvane,caraavne,caravaen,caravanne,caravnae,caravvane,carravane,carvaane,ccaravane,craavane
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for caravane
Misspelling Variants of "caravane"
Frequency rank: #12,329 in French
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