Cachin
\ka.ʃɛ̃\
The verdict
“Cachin” is uncommon French (frequency #82,757 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,757
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cachin · Cachin · French
Cachin · rank #82,757 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,757
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH béal
Nearest frequency peer: béal (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Cachin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bâtissons
bâtissons
17,246 corpus weight
- béal
béal
17,245 corpus weight
- Cachin
Cachin
17,244 corpus weight
- caféier
caféier
17,243 corpus weight
- calabrais
calabrais
17,242 corpus weight
- calculons
calculons
17,241 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cachin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cachin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʃɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,757 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cachin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cachin is uncommon French at frequency #82,757 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ka.ʃɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Cachin has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Cachin, spelled C-A-C-H-I-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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