# cache

> English word · Noun · IPA /kæʃ/ · frequency rank #12,382

## Definitions
1. A store, protected and often hidden in some way, of things that may be required in the future, such that they can be retrieved rapidly.
2. A store, protected and often hidden in some way, of things that may be required in the future, such that they can be retrieved rapidly.
3. A store, protected and often hidden in some way, of things that may be required in the future, such that they can be retrieved rapidly.

## Etymology
From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”), from the verb cacher (“to hide”).

## Easily confused with
- **che** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cache-vs-che)
- **care** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cache-vs-care)
- **case** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cache-vs-case)
- **came** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cache-vs-came)
- **cash** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cache-vs-cash)
- **cake** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cache-vs-cake)
- **cape** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cache-vs-cape)
- **cave** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cache-vs-cave)
- **cage** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cache-vs-cage)
- **cane** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cache-vs-cane)
- **café** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cache-vs-cafe)
- **cate** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cache-vs-cate)
- **Cath** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cache-vs-cath)
- **cause** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cache-vs-cause)
- **coach** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cache-vs-coach)
- **catch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cache-vs-catch)
- **cycle** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cache-vs-cycle)
- **caste** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cache-vs-caste)
- **Cathy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cache-vs-cathy)
- **canoe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cache-vs-canoe)

## Common misspellings (7)
`acche`, `cacche`, `caceh`, `cachhe`, `cahce`, `ccache`, `ccahe`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/cache