cavalières
\ka.va.ljɛʁ\
The verdict
“cavalières” is uncommon French (frequency #80,031 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,031
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de cavalier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cavalieres · cavalières · French
cavalières · rank #80,031 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,031
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cazal
Nearest frequency peer: Cazal (+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 « cavalières »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cartonnage
cartonnage
19,974 corpus weight
- castagnettes
castagnettes
19,973 corpus weight
- castellano
castellano
19,972 corpus weight
- cavalières
cavalières
19,970 corpus weight
- Cazal
Cazal
19,969 corpus weight
- chamallow
chamallow
19,966 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cavalières » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cavalières |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.va.ljɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,031 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cavalières » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cavalières is uncommon French at frequency #80,031 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.va.ljɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de cavalier.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cavalières in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cavalières, spelled C-A-V-A-L-I-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de cavalier.
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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