cadet de Gascogne
The verdict
“cadet de Gascogne” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Sous l’ancien régime, militaire souvent gentilhomme, puîné et originaire de Gascogne.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cadet de Gascogne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.dɛ də gas.cɔɲ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cadet de Gascogne” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cadet de Gascogne is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.dɛ də gas.cɔɲ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Sous l’ancien régime, militaire souvent gentilhomme, puîné et originaire de Gascogne.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cadet de Gascogne in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cadet de Gascogne, spelled C-A-D-E-T- -D-E- -G-A-S-C-O-G-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sous l’ancien régime, militaire souvent gentilhomme, puîné et originaire de Gascogne.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-D-E-T- -D-E- -G-A-S-C-O-G-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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