cavalerie

\ka.val.ʁi\

/\ka.val.ʁi\/ noun

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The verdict

“cavalerie” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,407. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,407
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom collectif qui désignait les différentes espèces de troupes servant à cheval.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cavalerie · cavalerie · French

cavalerie · rank #7,407 · 12 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,407
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH canaux

Nearest frequency peer: canaux (-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 « cavalerie »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « cavalerie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

cavalerie vs cavalière
67% similar
cavalerie vs chevalerie
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cavalerie »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).cavaleriese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « canaux » (#7,406), « cellulaire » (#7,408), « camarade » (#7,405). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cavalerie » est au #7,407. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around cavalerie (IPA \ka.val.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,407 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for cavalerie, with forms such as "acvalerie", "caavlerie", and "cavaelrie". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "cavalière", "chevalerie", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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 cavalerie, spelled C-A-V-A-L-E-R-I-E.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how cavalerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Quand la guerre recommença, Charles Mignon obtint de passer dans la cavalerie et perdit alors de vue son camarade.
  2. Après Alexandre, on chargea la cavalerie d’armes défensives; on donna aux cavaliers de lourdes cuirasses en écailles, puis des cuissarts et des gantelets, et aux chevaux des frontaux et des garde-flancs.

This word in other languages

cavalry(English)caballería(Español)Kavallerie(Deutsch)cavalaria(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acvalerie
  • caavlerie
  • cavaelrie
  • cavaleire
  • cavalerei
  • cavalerrie
  • cavallerie
  • cavalreie
  • cavlaerie
  • cavvalerie
  • ccavalerie
  • cvaalerie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cavalerie - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

acvalerie2caavlerie2cavaelrie2cavaleire2cavalerei2cavalerrie1cavallerie1cavalreie2
Edit distance from "cavalerie"

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.

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's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cavalerie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

chapitres#7,410algériens#7,399accroître#7,395sportives#7,381

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

cellulaire12 variantsbracelet12 variantscomposer12 variantscouverts12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list