cuevas
\ky.ə.va\
The verdict
“cuevas” is uncommon French (frequency #70,512 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,512
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cueva.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cuevas · cuevas · French
cuevas · rank #70,512 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,512
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cus
Nearest frequency peer: cus (+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 « cuevas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- creps
creps
29,492 corpus weight
- crozier
crozier
29,491 corpus weight
- cuevas
cuevas
29,489 corpus weight
- cus
cus
29,488 corpus weight
- cutie
cutie
29,487 corpus weight
- cyclotouris…
cyclotourisme
29,486 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cuevas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuevas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.ə.va\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,512 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cuevas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cuevas is uncommon French at frequency #70,512 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ky.ə.va\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cueva.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cuevas, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cuevas, spelled C-U-E-V-A-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cueva.
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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