cacographie
\ka.kɔ.ɡʁa.fi\
The verdict
“cacographie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faute d’orthographe, erreur de style.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cacographie · cacographie · French
cacographie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | cacographie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.kɔ.ɡʁa.fi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cacographie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cacographie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.kɔ.ɡʁa.fi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faute d’orthographe, erreur de style.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cacographie in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cacographie, spelled C-A-C-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E.
Definition
- 1Faute d’orthographe, erreur de style.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cacographie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant que l’élève corrige cette cacographie, il lit les règles et les remarques sur l’orthographe du verbe, […]. L’élève trouve, après elles, une cacographie qui n’est fautive que sur le nom, l’adjectif et le verbe, il doit la corriger.
Synonyms
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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.