caveau
\ka.vo\
The verdict
“caveau” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,243. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,243
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite cave.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caveau · caveau · French
caveau · rank #25,243 · 7 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,243
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cassis
Nearest frequency peer: cassis (-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 « caveau »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Canaries
Canaries
74,761 corpus weight
- cantines
cantines
74,760 corpus weight
- cassis
cassis
74,759 corpus weight
- caveau
caveau
74,758 corpus weight
- chauffée
chauffée
74,756 corpus weight
- chiale
chiale
74,755 corpus weight
What this shows « caveau » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caveau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.vo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #25,243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « caveau »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around caveau (IPA \ka.vo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,243 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for caveau, with forms such as "acveau", "caevau", and "cavaeu". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "caviar", "ciseau", "coteau", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is caveau, spelled C-A-V-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Petite cave.
- 2Petite cave pratiquée sous les églises, dans les cimetières, etc., pour servir de sépulture.
- 3Nom donné à certains établissements où l'on chante ou joue de la musique.
- 4Petite maison partiellement souterraine.
- 5Petite maison partiellement souterraine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caveau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les deux étages inférieurs sont des caveaux qui ne reçoivent ni air ni lumière, sauf par un soupirail carré percé au troisième étage, … .
… , il sembla à Hermann, […], qu’ils étaient dans une région souterraine ; bientôt il n’en douta plus, ils avaient cessé de descendre, et ils marchaient sur un terrain uni, et qu’il était facile de reconnaître pour le sol d’un caveau. — (Alexandre Dumas, Othon l’archer, 1839)
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acveau
- caevau
- cavaeu
- caveua
- cavveau
- ccaveau
- cvaeau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caveau - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).