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cascade

/kæsˈkeɪd/noun, verb

cascade is spelled C-A-S-C-A-D-E: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,613th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cascade means “A waterfall or series of small waterfalls” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cascade is cascades.

How many letters and syllables are in cascade?

Letters7: C-A-S-C-A-D-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing3.0 times per million words; the 15,613th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is cascade?

Cascade appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,613th 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 cascade?

  • US /kæsˈkeɪd/
  • Australia /kæsˈkæɪd/
  • /kɛsˈkæɪd/

Cascade has 2 syllables (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-au-cascade.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with cascade?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as cascade from its last stressed vowel (/eɪd/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: saccade.

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 cascade

  • cascades plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • cascading participle, present
  • cascaded participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does cascade mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.

  2. 2

    A stream or sequence of a thing or things occurring as if falling like a cascade.

    The bride carried a cascade of roses and baby's breath.

  3. 3

    A series of electrical (or other types of) components, the output of any one being connected to the input of the next.

  4. 4

    A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand.

  5. 5

    A sequence of absurd short messages posted to a newsgroup by different authors, each one responding to the most recent message and quoting the entire sequence to that point (with ever-increasing indentation).

  6. 6

    A hairpiece for women consisting of curled locks or a bun attached to a firm base, used to create the illusion of fuller hair.

  7. 7

    A series of reactions in which the product of one becomes a reactant in the next

verb

  1. 1

    To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls.

  2. 2

    To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall.

  3. 3

    To occur as a causal sequence.

  4. 4

    To pass (something) down through a chain or system in a flow or series of movements.

  5. 5

    archaicslangTo vomit.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Cascade in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcascade, chute d'eau (waterfall)
GermanWasserfall, Kaskade (waterfall), herabstürzen (to fall as a waterfall or series of small…), hintereinanderschalten (to arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall)
Portuguesecascata, cachoeira, salto, queda d'água (waterfall), cascatear (to fall as a waterfall or series of small…)
Spanishcascada (waterfall), caer en cascada, cascadear (to fall as a waterfall or series of small…), mostrar en cascada (to arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall)

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 cascade come from?

From French cascade, from Italian cascata, from cascare (“to fall”), from Vulgar Latin *cāsicāre, derived from Latin cadere, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d-.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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