cassette

/[kaˈset̪e]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#35,932

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

cassette is aSpanishnoun. It means: Grafía alternativa de caset. Pronounced [kaˈset̪e].

Key facts for cassette
PropertyValue
Headwordcassette
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kaˈset̪e]
Letters8
Frequency rank#35,932
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cassette in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cassette is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈset̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #35,932 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Grafía alternativa de caset.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for cassette, with forms such as "acssette", "cascette", and "casestte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is cassette, spelled C-A-S-S-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Grafía alternativa de caset.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acssette,cascette,casestte,casette,cassete,cassetet,casstete,ccassette,csasette

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cassette

Misspelling Variants of "cassette"

acssette8cascette8casestte8casette7cassete7cassetet8casstete8ccassette9
Misspelling Variants of "cassette"

Frequency rank: #35,932 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cassette"?
"cassette" is spelled C-A-S-S-E-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is [kaˈset̪e].
What does "cassette" mean?
As a noun, "cassette" means: Grafía alternativa de caset.
What are common misspellings of "cassette"?
Common misspellings include "acssette", "cascette", "casestte", "casette", "cassete". The correct spelling is "cassette".
How do you pronounce "cassette"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cassette" is [kaˈset̪e]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cassette" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.