# cash

> English word · Noun · IPA /kæʃ/ · frequency rank #1,264

## Definitions
1. Money in the form of notes or bills and coins, as opposed to checks, credit or electronic transactions.
2. Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.
3. Money.
4. Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located.
5. An instance of winning a cash prize.
6. A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.

## Etymology
From late Middle French caisse (“money-box”), itself borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“box”), ultimately from capiō (“take, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“grasp”). Doublet of case, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja (“box”).

## Easily confused with
- **ch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cash-vs-ch)
- **cs** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cash-vs-cs)
- **cat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cash-vs-cat)
- **CBS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cash-vs-cbs)
- **cos** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cash-vs-cos)
- **CDs** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cash-vs-cds)
- **cis** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cash-vs-cis)
- **CSS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cash-vs-css)
- **CPS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cash-vs-cps)
- **CMS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cash-vs-cms)
- **CVS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cash-vs-cvs)
- **CSI** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cash-vs-csi)
- **CES** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cash-vs-ces)
- **CSR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cash-vs-csr)
- **CSA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cash-vs-csa)
- **CFS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cash-vs-cfs)
- **CST** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cash-vs-cst)
- **CNS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cash-vs-cns)
- **CCS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cash-vs-ccs)
- **CSU** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cash-vs-csu)

## Common misspellings (6)
`acsh`, `cahs`, `cashh`, `cassh`, `ccash`, `csah`

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