cachait
\ka.ʃɛ\
The verdict
“cachait” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,582. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,582
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe cacher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cachait · cachait · French
cachait · rank #15,582 · 10 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,582
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH buter
Nearest frequency peer: buter (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cachait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- brancher
brancher
84,422 corpus weight
- burn
burn
84,421 corpus weight
- buter
buter
84,420 corpus weight
- cachait
cachait
84,419 corpus weight
- Calgary
Calgary
84,418 corpus weight
- canicule
canicule
84,417 corpus weight
What this shows « cachait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | cachait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ka.ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,582 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cachait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around cachait (IPA \ka.ʃɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,582 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe cacher.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cachait, with forms such as "acchait", "cacahit", and "cacchait". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "cachet", "cachot", "Cachan", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cachait, spelled C-A-C-H-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe cacher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cachait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bonaparte, qui s’y entendait, changeait le titre des gens : il cachait le nom de M. de Talleyrand sous celui de prince de Bénévent; il baronnifiait les marquis et ducalisait les comtes. La recette est assez bonne, et nous la recommandons fortement à qui de droit.
Processif, écrivailleur, il minutait des lettres douces et polies à ses locataires ; mais au fond de son style comme sous sa mine fade et prévenante se cachait l’âme de Shylock.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acchait
- cacahit
- cacchait
- cachaitt
- cachati
- cachhait
- cachiat
- cahcait
- ccachait
- ccahait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cachait - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cachait", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).