chevalière
\ʃə.va.ljɛʁ\
The verdict
“chevalière” is uncommon French (frequency #53,199 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,199
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui avait reçu l’ordre de la chevalerie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chevaliere · chevalière · French
chevalière · rank #53,199 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,199
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chavannes
Nearest frequency peer: Chavannes (-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 « chevalière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chandeleur
Chandeleur
46,806 corpus weight
- chapon
chapon
46,805 corpus weight
- Chavannes
Chavannes
46,803 corpus weight
- chevalière
chevalière
46,802 corpus weight
- chieur
chieur
46,800 corpus weight
- Chimène
Chimène
46,799 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chevalière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chevalière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃə.va.ljɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #53,199 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chevalière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chevalière is uncommon French at frequency #53,199 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃə.va.ljɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
chevalière has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is chevalière, spelled C-H-E-V-A-L-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui avait reçu l’ordre de la chevalerie.
- 2Femme portant le grade de chevalier dans certains ordres religieux, militaires ou civils.
- 3Épouse d’un chevalier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chevalière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chevaleresse ou chevalière, les mots existent au Moyen Âge, en latin comme dans les langues d’oïl et d’oc, non seulement pour désigner la femme d’un chevalier, mais aussi la cavalière, celle qui combat à cheval, ou encore la dame qui appartient à un ordre de chevalerie.
Les chevalières de la Légion d’honneur
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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