cavale
\ka.val\
The verdict
“cavale” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,079. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,079
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jument.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cavale · cavale · French
cavale · rank #20,079 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,079
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH causa
Nearest frequency peer: causa (-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 « cavale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Cantal
Cantal
79,925 corpus weight
- casinos
casinos
79,924 corpus weight
- causa
causa
79,923 corpus weight
- cavale
cavale
79,922 corpus weight
- Centrafrique
Centrafrique
79,921 corpus weight
- chameau
chameau
79,920 corpus weight
What this shows « cavale » 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 | cavale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.val\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cavale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around cavale (IPA \ka.val\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,079 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cavale, with forms such as "acvale", "caavle", and "cavael". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cave", "châle", "civile", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cavale, spelled C-A-V-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Jument.
- 2Évasion, fuite d’une personne détenue en prison.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cavale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tel fut le sort de cette bague qu’un hidalgo avait achetée d’un émir au prix d’une blanche cavale, […].
Avant que ma mère eût apporté en mariage au guerrier Simaghan trente cavales, vingt buffles, cent mesures d’huile de glands, cinquante peaux de castors et beaucoup d’autres richesses, elle avait connu un homme de la chair blanche.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acvale
- caavle
- cavael
- cavalle
- cavlae
- cavvale
- ccavale
- cvaale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cavale - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).