caisse de grève
\kɛs də ɡʁɛv\
The verdict
“caisse de grève” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Sorte de budget commun à des grévistes, gérés par eux-mêmes, pour financer leur lutte et assurer une compensation à l’absence de salaire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caisse de grève |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛs də ɡʁɛv\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “caisse de grève” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for caisse de grève is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɛs də ɡʁɛv\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for caisse de grève 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 de grève, spelled C-A-I-S-S-E- -D-E- -G-R-È-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de budget commun à des grévistes, gérés par eux-mêmes, pour financer leur lutte et assurer une compensation à l’absence de salaire.
- 2Sorte de budget commun au patronat pour résister à la grève des salariés.
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.
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