caisse d’assurance vieillesse
\kɛs d‿a.sy.ʁɑ̃s vjɛ.jɛs\
The verdict
“caisse d’assurance vieillesse” 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
- 29
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Contraction du nom de la Caisse nationale d'assurance vieillesse (CNAV), organisme créé en 1967 pour gérer la retraite des salariés, à l’exception de ceux du secteur agricole et de la fonction publ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caisse d’assurance vieillesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛs d‿a.sy.ʁɑ̃s vjɛ.jɛs\ |
| Letters | 29 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “caisse d’assurance vieillesse” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for caisse d’assurance vieillesse is 29 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɛs d‿a.sy.ʁɑ̃s vjɛ.jɛs\. 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: "Contraction du nom de la Caisse nationale d'assurance vieillesse (CNAV), organisme créé en 1967 pour gérer la retraite des salariés, à l’exception de ceux du secteur agricole et de la fonction publ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for caisse d’assurance vieillesse 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 d’assurance vieillesse, spelled C-A-I-S-S-E- -D-’-A-S-S-U-R-A-N-C-E- -V-I-E-I-L-L-E-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Contraction du nom de la Caisse nationale d'assurance vieillesse (CNAV), organisme créé en 1967 pour gérer la retraite des salariés, à l’exception de ceux du secteur agricole et de la fonction publique.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-I-S-S-E- -D-’-A-S-S-U-R-A-N-C-E- -V-I-E-I-L-L-E-S-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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