cravate
\kʁa.vat\
The verdict
“cravate” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,025. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,025
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Croate, de Croatie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cravate · cravate · French
cravate · rank #11,025 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,025
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH courtois
Nearest frequency peer: courtois (-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 « cravate »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- continuation
continuation
88,979 corpus weight
- correspondre
correspondre
88,978 corpus weight
- courtois
courtois
88,977 corpus weight
- cravate
cravate
88,976 corpus weight
- cuillère
cuillère
88,975 corpus weight
- cursus
cursus
88,974 corpus weight
What this shows « cravate » 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 | cravate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁa.vat\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cravate »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around cravate (IPA \kʁa.vat\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,025 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Croate, de Croatie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cravate, with forms such as "carvate", "ccravate", and "craavte". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "croate", "cravates", "cavité", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cravate, spelled C-R-A-V-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Croate, de Croatie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cravate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] on a remarqué que les chevaux hongrois, cravates et polonais sont fort sujets à être bégus.
Le régiment royal-cravate.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- carvate
- ccravate
- craavte
- cravaet
- cravatte
- cravtae
- cravvate
- crravate
- crvaate
- rcavate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cravate - 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 "cravate", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).