cravates
\kʁa.vat\
The verdict
“cravates” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,767. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,767
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cravate.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cravates · cravates · French
cravates · rank #32,767 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,767
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH courgette
Nearest frequency peer: courgette (-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 « cravates »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Cornelius
Cornelius
67,237 corpus weight
- Corsica
Corsica
67,236 corpus weight
- courgette
courgette
67,235 corpus weight
- cravates
cravates
67,234 corpus weight
- creusement
creusement
67,232 corpus weight
- crit
crit
67,231 corpus weight
What this shows « cravates » 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 | cravates |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁa.vat\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,767 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cravates »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around cravates (IPA \kʁa.vat\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,767 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de cravate.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for cravates, with forms such as "carvates", "ccravates", and "craavtes". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "croates", "cravate", "cavités", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cravates, spelled C-R-A-V-A-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cravate.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cravates appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle le ouatait, l’embéguinait, le médicinait ; elle l’empâtait de mets choisis comme un bichon de marquise, elle lui ordonnait ou lui défendait tel ou tel aliment ; elle lui brodait des gilets, des bouts de cravates et des mouchoirs ; elle avait fini par l’habituer à porter de si jolies choses qu’elle le métamorphosait en une sorte d’idole japonaise.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- carvates
- ccravates
- craavtes
- cravaets
- cravatess
- cravatse
- cravattes
- cravtaes
- cravvates
- crravates
- crvaates
- rcavates
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cravates - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).