cavités
\ka.vi.te\
The verdict
“cavités” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,650. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,650
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cavité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cavites · cavités · French
cavités · rank #17,650 · 11 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,650
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH causent
Nearest frequency peer: causent (-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 « cavités »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- capitaines
capitaines
82,354 corpus weight
- causent
causent
82,352 corpus weight
- cavités
cavités
82,351 corpus weight
- circulaires
circulaires
82,350 corpus weight
- clopes
clopes
82,349 corpus weight
- collabore
collabore
82,348 corpus weight
What this shows « cavités » 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 | cavités |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.vi.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,650 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cavités »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around cavités (IPA \ka.vi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,650 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de cavité.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for cavités, with forms such as "acvités", "caivtés", and "cavites". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "cites", "civiles", "chiites", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cavités, spelled C-A-V-I-T-É-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cavité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cavités appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les animaux qui nous occupent sont, pour la plupart, fixés au sol, aux rochers, surtout aux pierres anfractueuses, qu’on doit souvent briser avec le marteau de géologue pour les dénicher dans les cavités où ils se réfugient volontiers.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acvités
- caivtés
- cavites
- cavitsé
- cavittés
- cavitéss
- caviéts
- cavtiés
- cavvités
- ccavités
- cvaités
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cavités - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cavités", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).