homme des cavernes
\ɔm de ka.vɛʁn\
The verdict
“homme des cavernes” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Humain de l’époque paléolithique qui vivait dans des cavernes, des grottes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-homme-des-cavernes · homme des cavernes · French
homme des cavernes · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | homme des cavernes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔm de ka.vɛʁn\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
homme des cavernes is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔm de ka.vɛʁn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for homme des cavernes, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is homme des cavernes, spelled H-O-M-M-E- -D-E-S- -C-A-V-E-R-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Humain de l’époque paléolithique qui vivait dans des cavernes, des grottes.
- 2Homme rustre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how homme des cavernes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais le maître des Hautes Héez dédaigne toute convenance. Qu’il garde sa barbe toute entière, mais qu’il la cultive. Elle lui donne l’air d’un Robinson, d’un homme des cavernes, voire d’un hors-la-loi.
Onawa voyait en lui le tout petit enfant, derrière son masque hirsute d’homme des cavernes.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.