cachet
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,128
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cachet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit objet gravé avec lequel on marque une empreinte, par exemple pour fermer une lettre, ou pour laisser une marque distinctive qui garantit l’authenticité du document, ou pour donner un renseign... Pronounced \ka.ʃɛ\. Often confused with cadet and coche.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cachet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,128 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cachet is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ʃɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,128 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for cachet, with forms such as "acchet", "cacchet", and "caceht". 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 also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cadet", "coche", "Canet", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 cachet, spelled C-A-C-H-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit objet gravé avec lequel on marque une empreinte, par exemple pour fermer une lettre, ou pour laisser une marque distinctive qui garantit l’authenticité du document, ou pour donner un renseignement, etc.
- 2Cette empreinte même.
- 3Empreinte faite par le tampon de la poste.
- 4Cartes sur lesquelles on met un cachet ou une marque et qui, dans un abonnement, servent à tenir compte du nombre de fois qu’une personne a fait quelque chose.
- 5Rétribution d’un artiste par représentation, par concert.
- 6Caractère particulier, distinctif d’un auteur, d’un artiste, etc.
- 7Capsule renfermant une dose de poudre médicamenteuse, anciennement composée de deux cupules de pain azyme soudées par humidification.
- 8Comprimé, capsule dont la forme rappelle celle d’un médicament.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acchet,cacchet,caceht,cachett,cachhet,cachte,cahcet,ccachet,ccahet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cachet
Misspelling Variants of "cachet"
Frequency rank: #13,128 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: