Which to use
“cavités” and “cravates” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #17,650
- “cavités” frequency rank
- #32,767
- “cravates” frequency rank
- 50417
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | cavités | cravates |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pluriel de cavité. | Pluriel de cravate. |
Where the eye mixes cavités and cravates
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. cavités runs 7 letters (CVCVCVC) against cravates's 8 (CCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: cavités vs cravates
A purely visual mix-up. cavités (\ka.vi.te\) and cravates (\kʁa.vat\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50417, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
cavités is recorded at frequency rank #17,650, classified as anoun, pronounced \ka.vi.te\. cravates is at rank #32,767, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kʁa.vat\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 50417, this pair ranks #162,819 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of cavités vs cravates
Shared letters: acstv. Private to "cavités": ié. Private to "cravates": er.
"cavités" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC · "cravates" · 8 letters · shape CCVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- cravates ← carvates · ccravates · craavtes · cravaets · cravatess · cravatse · cravattes · cravtaes
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "cavités" and "cravates" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "cavités" or "cravates" show up more?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "cavités" and "cravates" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "cavités" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "cravates" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #162,819 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "cavités" and "cravates" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "caritas vs cavités". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #162,819 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.