cache
/kæʃ/noun, verb
cache is spelled C-A-C-H-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 4.3 times per million words in written English, the 12,397th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “cache vs cachet” about 260 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, cache means “Such a store of physical supplies, placed by humans or other animals for practical reasons” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cache is caches.
How many letters and syllables are in cache?
| Letters | 5: C-A-C-H-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.3 times per million words; the 12,397th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is cache?
Cache appears 4.3 times per million words in written English, the 12,397th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce cache?
- UK /kæʃ/
- US /kæʃ/
- US /keɪʃ/
Cache has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-cache.ogg, En-us-cache.ogg, En-ca-cache.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with cache
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: cash (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with cache?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as cache from its last stressed vowel (/æʃ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of cache
- caches plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- caching participle, present
- cached participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does cache mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Such a store of physical supplies, placed by humans or other animals for practical reasons.
Near-synonym: stash
- 2
A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
- 3
A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
verb
- 1
To place in a cache.
- 2
To store data in a cache.
- 3
To participate in geocaching.
- 4
To hide or seek a geocache.
- 5
to store up, stockpile
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Cache in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | esconderijo , cache, memória cache , armazenar em cache |
| French | cache, mémoire cache |
| German | Cache, Zwischenspeicher , cachen , Geocache |
| Spanish | memoria caché, caché , cachear |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does cache come from?
From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”), from the verb cacher (“to hide”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).