caisse claire
\kɛs klɛʁ\
The verdict
“caisse claire” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Tambour assez peu profond, dont la deuxième peau est munie d’un petit ressort métallique qui lui donne son timbre caractéristique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caisse claire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛs klɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “caisse claire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for caisse claire is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɛs klɛʁ\. 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: "Tambour assez peu profond, dont la deuxième peau est munie d’un petit ressort métallique qui lui donne son timbre caractéristique.".
No misspelling variants are generated for caisse claire 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 caisse claire, spelled C-A-I-S-S-E- -C-L-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tambour assez peu profond, dont la deuxième peau est munie d’un petit ressort métallique qui lui donne son timbre caractéristique.
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Using “caisse claire”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-I-S-S-E- -C-L-A-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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