cava
\ka.va\
The verdict
“cava” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,330. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,330
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vin mousseux espagnol.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cava · cava · French
cava · rank #43,330 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,330
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caton
Nearest frequency peer: caton (-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 « cava »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Castries
Castries
56,674 corpus weight
- catapulte
catapulte
56,673 corpus weight
- caton
caton
56,672 corpus weight
- cava
cava
56,671 corpus weight
- CDN
CDN
56,670 corpus weight
- cerne
cerne
56,669 corpus weight
What this shows « cava » 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 | cava |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.va\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #43,330 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cava »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around cava (IPA \ka.va\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,330 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Vin mousseux espagnol.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for cava, with forms such as "acva", "caav", and "cavva". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "cia", "CFA", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 cava, spelled C-A-V-A.
Definition
- 1Vin mousseux espagnol.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cava appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une petite armée de serveurs impeccables se confondait avec la blancheur des murs, attendant un signe de l’amphitryon pour commencer le défilé des plateaux, canapés et coupes de cava, le champagne catalan.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acva
- caav
- cavva
- ccava
- cvaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cava - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).