cavalcade
\ka.val.kad\
The verdict
“cavalcade” is uncommon French (frequency #54,461 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,461
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Défilé festif de gens à cheval ou de chars dans une fête publique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cavalcade · cavalcade · French
cavalcade · rank #54,461 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,461
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH castrum
Nearest frequency peer: castrum (-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 « cavalcade »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- carmin
carmin
45,545 corpus weight
- carta
carta
45,544 corpus weight
- Castellet
Castellet
45,542 corpus weight
- castrum
castrum
45,541 corpus weight
- cavalcade
cavalcade
45,540 corpus weight
- CDA
CDA
45,538 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cavalcade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cavalcade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.val.kad\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,461 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cavalcade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cavalcade is uncommon French at frequency #54,461 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.val.kad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
cavalcade has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cavalcade, spelled C-A-V-A-L-C-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Défilé festif de gens à cheval ou de chars dans une fête publique.
- 2Promenade que plusieurs personnes réunies font à cheval.
- 3Ces personnes.
- 4Chevauchée, généralement animée ; course bruyante.
- 5Déplacement rapide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cavalcade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À dix heures, on entendit sonner les trompettes : les portes du château s’ouvrirent, et une riche cavalcade en sortit ; ….
De Chantilly, de Compiègne et de Senlis accouraient de joyeuses cavalcades qui prenaient place dans le cortège rustique des compagnies de l’arc.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).