caravelles
\ka.ʁa.vɛl\
The verdict
“caravelles” is uncommon French (frequency #91,499 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,499
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de caravelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caravelles · caravelles · French
caravelles · rank #91,499 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,499
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capétienne
Nearest frequency peer: capétienne (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « caravelles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- canonical
canonical
8,505 corpus weight
- canotiers
canotiers
8,504 corpus weight
- capétienne
capétienne
8,503 corpus weight
- caravelles
caravelles
8,502 corpus weight
- carbonisée
carbonisée
8,501 corpus weight
- cardiopathi…
cardiopathies
8,500 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caravelles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caravelles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁa.vɛl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #91,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caravelles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caravelles is uncommon French at frequency #91,499 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʁa.vɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de caravelle.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for caravelles, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is caravelles, spelled C-A-R-A-V-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de caravelle.
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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