cachette
\ka.ʃɛt\
The verdict
“cachette” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,985. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,985
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite cache.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cachette · cachette · French
cachette · rank #13,985 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,985
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH bêta
Nearest frequency peer: bêta (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “cachette”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Budapest
Budapest
86,019 corpus weight
- bute
bute
86,018 corpus weight
- bêta
bêta
86,017 corpus weight
- cachette
cachette
86,016 corpus weight
- cadence
cadence
86,015 corpus weight
- calmement
calmement
86,014 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “cachette” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | cachette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʃɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,985 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “cachette” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around cachette (IPA \ka.ʃɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,985 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cachette, with forms such as "acchette", "cacchette", and "cacehtte". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "cadette", "canette", "cassette", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cachette, spelled C-A-C-H-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petite cache.
- 2Cachotterie.
- 3Cache-cache.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cachette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ceux-ci enterrent, dans une cachette creusée sous l'escalier de la chambre du sacristain, la châsse de Notre-Dame, tous les reliquaires, les bijoux, les chapes de drap d'or, et bouchent le trou avec du plâtre; […].
Le vêtement renfermait des papiers dans la doublure. Mais, quelle que fût sa curiosité, l’obscurité était trop profonde pour qu’il les sortît de leur cachette et les examinât.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acchette
- cacchette
- cacehtte
- cachete
- cachetet
- cachhette
- cachtete
- cahcette
- ccachette
- ccahette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cachette - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cachette", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "cachette" maps to 10 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "cadette". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #13,985 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "C" letter cohort. C–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.