homme des cavernes
\ɔm de ka.vɛʁn\
The verdict
“homme des cavernes” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Humain de l’époque paléolithique qui vivait dans des cavernes, des grottes.
| 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) |
Where “homme des cavernes” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for homme des cavernes is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔm de ka.vɛʁn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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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.
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Using “homme des cavernes”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-O-M-M-E- -D-E-S- -C-A-V-E-R-N-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɔm de ka.vɛʁn\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.