cavernes
\ka.vɛʁn\
The verdict
“cavernes” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,563. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,563
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de caverne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cavernes · cavernes · French
cavernes · rank #21,563 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,563
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cassez
Nearest frequency peer: cassez (-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 « cavernes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cara
cara
78,441 corpus weight
- carences
carences
78,440 corpus weight
- cassez
cassez
78,439 corpus weight
- cavernes
cavernes
78,438 corpus weight
- CEA
CEA
78,437 corpus weight
- CEE
CEE
78,436 corpus weight
What this shows « cavernes » 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 | cavernes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.vɛʁn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,563 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cavernes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around cavernes (IPA \ka.vɛʁn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,563 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de caverne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for cavernes, with forms such as "acvernes", "caevrnes", and "cavenres". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "cernes", "Cévennes", "citernes", 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 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 cavernes, spelled C-A-V-E-R-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de caverne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cavernes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce ne sont que des rochers à pic contre lesquels la mer se brise avec fureur : les vents et les vagues les ont façonnés en pyramides, en tours, en cavernes, en arcades; d’innombrables oiseaux de mer animent le paysage.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acvernes
- caevrnes
- cavenres
- caverens
- caverness
- cavernnes
- cavernse
- caverrnes
- cavrenes
- cavvernes
- ccavernes
- cvaernes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cavernes - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).