cavalière

\ka.va.ljɛʁ\

/\ka.va.ljɛʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“cavalière” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,272. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#29,272
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui monte à cheval.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cavaliere · cavalière · French

cavalière · rank #29,272 · 13 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #29,272
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH Carroll

Nearest frequency peer: Carroll (-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 « cavalière »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « cavalière » 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).

cavalière vs cavaliers
78% similar
cavalière vs cavalier
78% similar
cavalière vs cavalerie
67% similar

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

Key facts for cavalière
PropertyValue
Headwordcavalière
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.va.ljɛʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#29,272
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cavalière »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).cavalièrese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Carroll » (#29,271), « CE1 » (#29,273), « carpenter » (#29,270). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cavalière » est au #29,272. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around cavalière (IPA \ka.va.ljɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,272 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for cavalière, with forms such as "acvalière", "caavlière", and "cavailère". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "cavaliers", "cavalier", "cavalerie", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cavalière, spelled C-A-V-A-L-I-È-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celle qui monte à cheval.
  2. 2
    Femme qui accompagne un ou une partenaire, particulièrement à un bal, ou qui danse avec lui ou avec elle.
  3. 3
    Femme qui sert dans la cavalerie militaire.
  4. 4
    Femme du monde qui monte dans les courses.
  5. 5
    Désignation de grade d’une membre d’un régiment blindé et du régiment The Queen’s York Rangers détenant le grade de soldate.
  6. 6
    Piste destinée à la circulation à cheval.
  7. 7
    Une des figures d’un jeu de cartes, particulièrement des tarots de divertissement ou de divination, représentant une femme montée à cheval.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Que Brantome dise tant qu’il lui plaira que la Duchesse de Valentinois eut du courage, qu’elle fut belle jusqu’à l’âge de 70 ans, qu’elle était bonne cavaliere, personne ne s’en formalisera.
  2. Dans les contre-allées, passent rapides, le cigare en bouche, des cavaliers et, cravache levée, des cavalières dont les éclats de voix, les rires bruyants, les propos, mêlés de toutes les langues, de toutes les argots de l’Europe, étonnent la feuillue.

Synonyms

équitante

This word in other languages

rider(English)jinete(Español)Reiterin(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acvalière
  • caavlière
  • cavailère
  • cavaliere
  • cavalirèe
  • cavalièer
  • cavalièrre
  • cavallière
  • cavalèire
  • cavlaière
  • cavvalière
  • ccavalière
  • cvaalière

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cavalière - 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.

acvalière2caavlière2cavailère2cavaliere1cavalirèe2cavalièer2cavalièrre1cavallière1
Edit distance from "cavalière"

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 "cavalière"?
"cavalière" is spelled C-A-V-A-L-I-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.va.ljɛʁ\.
What does "cavalière" mean?
As a noun, "cavalière" means: Celle qui monte à cheval.
What words are commonly confused with "cavalière"?
"cavalière" is commonly confused with "cavaliers", "cavalier", "cavalerie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cavalière"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cavalière" is \ka.va.ljɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cavalière" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

carpenter#29,270camoufler#29,267compagnes#29,292confronte#29,295

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

changées13 variantsbiographe13 variantsBeauchamp13 variantsdiffuseurs13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list