Cavill
The verdict
“Cavill” is uncommon French (frequency #84,620 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,620
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cavill · Cavill · French
Cavill · rank #84,620 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,620
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cattenom
Nearest frequency peer: Cattenom (-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 « Cavill »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- catamarans
catamarans
15,384 corpus weight
- catfish
catfish
15,383 corpus weight
- Cattenom
Cattenom
15,382 corpus weight
- Cavill
Cavill
15,381 corpus weight
- celluloïd
celluloïd
15,380 corpus weight
- cenne
cenne
15,379 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cavill » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cavill |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cavill » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cavill is uncommon French at frequency #84,620 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Cavill in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Cavill, spelled C-A-V-I-L-L.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Cavill appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le réalisateur a donc choisi David Corenswet comme Superman, à la place d’Henry Cavill, tandis que Rachel Brosnahan interprétera Lois Lane, la journaliste du Daily Planet et amoureuse de Clark Kent.
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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