cache-nez
Letters
9 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Confusables
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similar word pairs
cache-nez is aFrenchnoun. It means: Morceau de tissu dont on s’entoure le cou, et au besoin le bas du visage, pour les préserver du froid. Pronounced \kaʃ.ne\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cache-nez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʃ.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cache-nez is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʃ.ne\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cache-nez in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 French form is cache-nez, spelled C-A-C-H-E---N-E-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Morceau de tissu dont on s’entoure le cou, et au besoin le bas du visage, pour les préserver du froid.
- 2Sorte de masque de la toilette féminine qui couvrait le nez ou visage.
- 3Partie de casque qui couvrait le nez ou visage.
- 4Pièce de la bride du cheval qui entoure le chanfrein ; muserolle
- 5Vin de mauvaise qualité.
- 6Masque sanitaire.
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