cavallo
\ka.ˈval.lo\
The verdict
“cavallo” is uncommon French (frequency #72,163 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,163
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cheval.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cavallo · cavallo · French
cavallo · rank #72,163 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,163
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH ceva
Nearest frequency peer: ceva (+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 « cavallo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cassante
cassante
27,842 corpus weight
- caucasienne
caucasienne
27,841 corpus weight
- causaient
causaient
27,840 corpus weight
- cavallo
cavallo
27,838 corpus weight
- ceva
ceva
27,837 corpus weight
- chambertin
chambertin
27,835 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cavallo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cavallo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ˈval.lo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cavallo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cavallo is uncommon French at frequency #72,163 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ˈval.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cheval.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cavallo, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cavallo, spelled C-A-V-A-L-L-O.
Definition
- 1Cheval.
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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