cavalerie

/\ka.val.ʁi\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,407

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

cavalerie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom collectif qui désignait les différentes espèces de troupes servant à cheval. Pronounced \ka.val.ʁi\. It ranks #7,407 in French word frequency. Often confused with cavalière and chevalerie.

Key facts for cavalerie
PropertyValue
Headwordcavalerie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.val.ʁi\
Letters9
Frequency rank#7,407
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cavalerie in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cavalerie is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.val.ʁi\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,407 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for cavalerie, with forms such as "acvalerie", "caavlerie", and "cavaelrie". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "cavalière", "chevalerie", 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 cavalerie, spelled C-A-V-A-L-E-R-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom collectif qui désignait les différentes espèces de troupes servant à cheval.
  2. 2
    Les troupes de blindés.
  3. 3
    Ensemble des chevaux d’une entreprise de transports ou de spectacle.
  4. 4
    Opération frauduleuse entre commerçants consistant à se vendre un bien fictif dans le but d’augmenter artificiellement leur chiffre d’affaires, le but étant de pouvoir emprunter auprès d’une banque ou lui escompter des traites issues de cette opération.
  5. 5
    Spéculation financière, dans laquelle l’on finance le remboursement des emprunts à échéance par de nouveaux emprunts.
  6. 6
    Secours.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acvalerie,caavlerie,cavaelrie,cavaleire,cavalerei,cavalerrie,cavallerie,cavalreie,cavlaerie,cavvalerie,ccavalerie,cvaalerie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cavalerie

Misspelling Variants of "cavalerie"

acvalerie9caavlerie9cavaelrie9cavaleire9cavalerei9cavalerrie10cavallerie10cavalreie9
Misspelling Variants of "cavalerie"

Frequency rank: #7,407 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cavalerie"?
"cavalerie" is spelled C-A-V-A-L-E-R-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.val.ʁi\.
What does "cavalerie" mean?
As a noun, "cavalerie" means: Nom collectif qui désignait les différentes espèces de troupes servant à cheval.
What words are commonly confused with "cavalerie"?
"cavalerie" is commonly confused with "cavalière", "chevalerie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cavalerie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cavalerie" is \ka.val.ʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cavalerie" come from?
"cavalerie" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.