caviar
\ka.vjaʁ\
The verdict
“caviar” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,825. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,825
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mets fait avec des œufs d’esturgeon, en particulier en Russie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caviar · caviar · French
caviar · rank #16,825 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,825
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Caucase
Nearest frequency peer: Caucase (-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 « caviar »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cargaison
cargaison
83,179 corpus weight
- cassent
cassent
83,178 corpus weight
- Caucase
Caucase
83,177 corpus weight
- caviar
caviar
83,176 corpus weight
- Cayenne
Cayenne
83,175 corpus weight
- centime
centime
83,174 corpus weight
What this shows « caviar » 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 | caviar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.vjaʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « caviar »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around caviar (IPA \ka.vjaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,825 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for caviar, with forms such as "acviar", "caivar", and "cavair". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "cavité", "cuvier", "clavier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is caviar, spelled C-A-V-I-A-R.
Definition
- 1Mets fait avec des œufs d’esturgeon, en particulier en Russie.
- 2Mets fait avec des œufs autres que les œufs d’esturgeons.
- 3Mets délicat qui rappelle le luxe.
- 4Mets dont la consistance rappelle les œufs d’esturgeon.
- 5Passe faite à un joueur lui donnant une occasion de but presque immanquable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caviar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant de longues années, ce Russe envoya à mon père et au professeur Charcot, aux environs de la Noël, un pain de caviar exquis, non pas fluent, mais compact, analogue à la savoureuse poutargue des Martigues.
Ce patrimoine c’est aussi le caviar de Chenac-Saint-Seurin-d’Uzet, l’architecture royannaise, évidemment.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acviar
- caivar
- cavair
- caviarr
- cavira
- cavviar
- ccaviar
- cvaiar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caviar - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).