cachots
\ka.ʃo\
The verdict
“cachots” is uncommon French (frequency #55,113 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,113
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cachot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cachots · cachots · French
cachots · rank #55,113 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,113
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cabas
Nearest frequency peer: cabas (-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 « cachots »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- butent
butent
44,891 corpus weight
- bénéficiera…
bénéficierait
44,890 corpus weight
- cabas
cabas
44,889 corpus weight
- cachots
cachots
44,888 corpus weight
- cadastral
cadastral
44,887 corpus weight
- cadi
cadi
44,886 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cachots » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cachots |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʃo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cachots » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cachots is uncommon French at frequency #55,113 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʃo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cachot.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cachots, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 cachots, spelled C-A-C-H-O-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cachot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cachots appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je me complus à mon obscurité, je souhaitai la prolonger, m’en faire un mérite. J’enviai les détenus célèbres qui ont écrit dans des cachots sur du papier à chandelle.
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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