cachent
\kaʃ\
The verdict
“cachent” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,127. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,127
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe cacher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cachent · cachent · French
cachent · rank #9,127 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,127
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH bétail
Nearest frequency peer: bétail (-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 « cachent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bourgeoisie
bourgeoisie
90,877 corpus weight
- bulletins
bulletins
90,876 corpus weight
- bétail
bétail
90,875 corpus weight
- cachent
cachent
90,874 corpus weight
- Carlo
Carlo
90,873 corpus weight
- cessez
cessez
90,872 corpus weight
What this shows « cachent » 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 | cachent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kaʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cachent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around cachent (IPA \kaʃ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,127 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for cachent, with forms such as "acchent", "cacchent", and "cacehnt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cacher", "cachés", "cachet", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cachent, spelled C-A-C-H-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe cacher.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe cacher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cachent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On sent, lorsqu’il en laisse échapper quelque chose, avec quelle joie il se renfermait dans sa coquille, comme ces insectes qui se cachent à l’approche de l’homme.
À l’étalage, les beaux fruits, délicatement parés dans des paniers, avaient des rondeurs de joues qui se cachent, des faces de belles enfants entrevues à demi sous un rideau de feuilles ; les pêches surtout, les Montreuil rougissantes, de peau fine et claire comme des filles du nord, et les pêches du Midi, jaunes et brûlées, ayant le hâle des filles de Pr…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acchent
- cacchent
- cacehnt
- cachennt
- cachentt
- cachetn
- cachhent
- cachnet
- cahcent
- ccachent
- ccahent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cachent - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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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 (11 here; floor ≥5).