cas
/kæʒ/
"cas" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cas” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,713) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,713
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abbreviation of casual.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cas · cas · English
cas · rank #14,713 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,713
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH carving
Nearest frequency peer: carving (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “cas”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- bruh
bruh
85,290 corpus weight
- carving
carving
85,289 corpus weight
- cas
cas
85,288 corpus weight
- Cass
Cass
85,287 corpus weight
- CCTV
CCTV
85,286 corpus weight
- Cecil
Cecil
85,285 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “cas” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cas |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /kæʒ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “cas”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cas is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CD", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /kæʒ/. Frequency #14,713 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Abbreviation of casual.".
cas doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CD", "CM", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is cas, spelled C-A-S.
Definition
- 1Abbreviation of casual.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
don't feel like you have to dress up. I mean, we're super cas here
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).