cacheter
\kaʃ.te\
The verdict
“cacheter” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fermer avec un cachet ; appliquer un cachet sur quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cacheter · cacheter · French
cacheter · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cacheter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kaʃ.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cacheter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cacheter is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \kaʃ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fermer avec un cachet ; appliquer un cachet sur quelque chose.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cacheter in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cacheter, spelled C-A-C-H-E-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Fermer avec un cachet ; appliquer un cachet sur quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cacheter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oah! ’m’en vais la fixer avec de la cire à cacheter, ce sera pittoresque… Hihi!
Ce nom de Trognon lui fit entrevoir quelque machination, il crut à quelque vice de forme projeté par avance, à quelque infidélité préméditée par la Cibot, et il résolut de se servir de ce Trognon pour se faire dicter un testament olographe qu’il cachèterait et serrerait dans le tiroir de sa commode.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.