cavité buccale
\ka.vi.te by.kal\
The verdict
“cavité buccale” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - La cavité de la bouche, séparée des deux fosses nasales par le palais, et suivie du pharynx, sert à ingérer les aliments et les boissons, les mastiquer et imprégner de salive, puis ceux-ci descende...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cavité buccale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.vi.te by.kal\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cavité buccale” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cavité buccale is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.vi.te by.kal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "La cavité de la bouche, séparée des deux fosses nasales par le palais, et suivie du pharynx, sert à ingérer les aliments et les boissons, les mastiquer et imprégner de salive, puis ceux-ci descende...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cavité buccale, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cavité buccale, spelled C-A-V-I-T-É- -B-U-C-C-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1La cavité de la bouche, séparée des deux fosses nasales par le palais, et suivie du pharynx, sert à ingérer les aliments et les boissons, les mastiquer et imprégner de salive, puis ceux-ci descendent par l'œsophage à l'estomac.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-V-I-T-É- -B-U-C-C-A-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ka.vi.te by.kal\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.