chevauchée

\ʃə.vo.ʃe\

/\ʃə.vo.ʃe\/ noun

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The verdict

“chevauchée” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,305. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#36,305
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de chevaucher, d’aller à cheval.

Corpus desk

Index FR-chevauchee · chevauchée · French

chevauchée · rank #36,305 · 15 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #36,305
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH Chauveau

Nearest frequency peer: Chauveau (-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 « chevauchée »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « chevauchée » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

chevauchée vs chevaucher
80% similar
chevauchée vs chevauchent
73% similar
chevauchée vs chevauche
90% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for chevauchée
PropertyValue
Headwordchevauchée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃə.vo.ʃe\
Letters10
Frequency rank#36,305
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chevauchée »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).chevauchéese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Chauveau » (#36,304), « chick » (#36,306), « chausse » (#36,303). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « chevauchée » est au #36,305. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around chevauchée (IPA \ʃə.vo.ʃe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,305 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for chevauchée, with forms such as "cchevauchée", "cehvauchée", and "cheavuchée". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "chevaucher", "chevauchent", "chevauche", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chevauchée, spelled C-H-E-V-A-U-C-H-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de chevaucher, d’aller à cheval.
  2. 2
    Action de chevaucher, d’aller à cheval.
  3. 3
    Cortège, défilé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how chevauchée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Après une chevauchée des plus agréables, per amica silentia lunӕ, nous arrivons à destination le dimanche matin, un peu avant six heures.
  2. Ainsi se defit et rompit cette grosse chevauchée [des deux armées française et anglaise]

Synonyms

cavalcade

This word in other languages

ride(English)cabalgata(Español)Ritt(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cchevauchée
  • cehvauchée
  • cheavuchée
  • chevacuhée
  • chevaucchée
  • chevauchee
  • chevaucheé
  • chevauchhée
  • chevaucéhe
  • chevauhcée
  • chevuachée
  • chevvauchée
  • chhevauchée
  • chveauchée
  • hcevauchée

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chevauchée - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

cchevauchée1cehvauchée2cheavuchée2chevacuhée2chevaucchée1chevauchee1chevaucheé2chevauchhée1
Edit distance from "chevauchée"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chevauchée"?
"chevauchée" is spelled C-H-E-V-A-U-C-H-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃə.vo.ʃe\.
What does "chevauchée" mean?
As a noun, "chevauchée" means: Action de chevaucher, d’aller à cheval.
What words are commonly confused with "chevauchée"?
"chevauchée" is commonly confused with "chevaucher", "chevauchent", "chevauche". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "chevauchée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chevauchée" is \ʃə.vo.ʃe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chevauchée" come from?
"chevauchée" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chevauchée", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

compostage15 variantsconfirmera15 variantsconnections15 variantsconservait15 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list