cavité
\ka.vi.te\
The verdict
“cavité” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,828. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,828
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Creux, vide dans un corps solide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cavite · cavité · French
cavité · rank #15,828 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,828
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH causant
Nearest frequency peer: causant (-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 « cavité »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- capot
capot
84,176 corpus weight
- carreau
carreau
84,175 corpus weight
- causant
causant
84,174 corpus weight
- cavité
cavité
84,173 corpus weight
- centrée
centrée
84,172 corpus weight
- chase
chase
84,170 corpus weight
What this shows « cavité » 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 | cavité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.vi.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,828 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cavité »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cavité (IPA \ka.vi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,828 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Creux, vide dans un corps solide.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cavité, with forms such as "acvité", "caivté", and "cavite". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cité", "cuite", "comité", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cavité, spelled C-A-V-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Creux, vide dans un corps solide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cavité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Dès avant l'hibernation, les ovaires s'étaient considérablement accrus et remplissaient la cavité générale ; ils ont encore un peu grossi pendant l'hibernation aux dépens des réserves nutritives accumulées dans l'organisme.
Il n’est qu’un élément du système phonatoire, dont le fonctionnement repose sur l’interaction entre trois classes d’organes : les poumons, le pharynx et les cavités supraglottiques (bouche, nez, lèvres, pharynx…).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acvité
- caivté
- cavite
- cavitté
- caviét
- cavtié
- cavvité
- ccavité
- cvaité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cavité - 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).