cavistes
\ka.vist\
The verdict
“cavistes” is uncommon French (frequency #77,336 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,336
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de caviste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cavistes · cavistes · French
cavistes · rank #77,336 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,336
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH catering
Nearest frequency peer: catering (-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 « cavistes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- castella
castella
22,669 corpus weight
- castillane
castillane
22,668 corpus weight
- catering
catering
22,666 corpus weight
- cavistes
cavistes
22,665 corpus weight
- centrifuges
centrifuges
22,664 corpus weight
- chamaillent
chamaillent
22,661 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cavistes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cavistes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.vist\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,336 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cavistes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cavistes is uncommon French at frequency #77,336 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.vist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de caviste.".
cavistes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 cavistes, spelled C-A-V-I-S-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de caviste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cavistes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Victor, jeune distillateur de Lorraine, est venu, avec quelques collègues de toute la France, faire déguster ses produits à des cavistes et restaurateurs parisiens lors d’un « apéro-gnôle ».
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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