cachot
\ka.ʃo\
The verdict
“cachot” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,993. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,993
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cellule basse et obscure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cachot · cachot · French
cachot · rank #26,993 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,993
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH bénie
Nearest frequency peer: bénie (-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 « cachot »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- brosses
brosses
73,011 corpus weight
- bunny
bunny
73,010 corpus weight
- bénie
bénie
73,009 corpus weight
- cachot
cachot
73,008 corpus weight
- canaliser
canaliser
73,007 corpus weight
- carrure
carrure
73,006 corpus weight
What this shows « cachot » 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 | cachot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʃo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,993 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cachot »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cachot (IPA \ka.ʃo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,993 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Cellule basse et obscure.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cachot, with forms such as "acchot", "cacchot", and "cachhot". 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, "capot", "canot", "catho", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cachot, spelled C-A-C-H-O-T.
Definition
- 1Cellule basse et obscure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cachot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand Napoléon III fut empoigné à Boulogne pour avoir donné une seconde représentation du débarquement à Cannes, on le jeta au cachot et on l’emmena à Paris sans lui donner le temps de changer de chemise.
Le dix-septième jour de la seconde année de sa prévention, Jacques Errant fut extrait de son cachot et conduit entre deux gendarmes dans une grande salle où la lumière l'éblouit au point qu'il manqua défaillir.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acchot
- cacchot
- cachhot
- cachott
- cachto
- cacoht
- cahcot
- ccachot
- ccahot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cachot - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).