cravache
\kʁa.vaʃ\
The verdict
“cravache” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,439. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,439
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tige flexible ayant la forme d’une badine, dont se sert le cavalier pour frapper sa monture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cravache · cravache · French
cravache · rank #48,439 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,439
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH craintif
Nearest frequency peer: craintif (-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 « cravache »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- courra
courra
51,565 corpus weight
- COV
COV
51,564 corpus weight
- craintif
craintif
51,563 corpus weight
- cravache
cravache
51,562 corpus weight
- crescent
crescent
51,561 corpus weight
- CrossFit
CrossFit
51,560 corpus weight
What this shows « cravache » 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 | cravache |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁa.vaʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cravache »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around cravache (IPA \kʁa.vaʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,439 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tige flexible ayant la forme d’une badine, dont se sert le cavalier pour frapper sa monture.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for cravache, with forms such as "carvache", "ccravache", and "craavche". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "cravate", "crache", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cravache, spelled C-R-A-V-A-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Tige flexible ayant la forme d’une badine, dont se sert le cavalier pour frapper sa monture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cravache appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je voudrais connaître l’accusateur pour, d’abord, me justifier à ses yeux et ensuite lui faire deux ou trois petites caresses avec ma cravache.
Tous les Hollandais portent une cravache, fatuité de peuple maritime.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- carvache
- ccravache
- craavche
- cravacche
- cravaceh
- cravachhe
- cravahce
- cravcahe
- cravvache
- crravache
- crvaache
- rcavache
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cravache - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).