caisson de basse
\kɛ.sɔ̃ də bas\
The verdict
“caisson de basse” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Enceinte acoustique destinée à la reproduction des sons dans la plage de fréquences sonores de 20 Hz à 80 Hz.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caisson de basse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛ.sɔ̃ də bas\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “caisson de basse” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for caisson de basse is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɛ.sɔ̃ də bas\. 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: "Enceinte acoustique destinée à la reproduction des sons dans la plage de fréquences sonores de 20 Hz à 80 Hz.".
caisson de basse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is caisson de basse, spelled C-A-I-S-S-O-N- -D-E- -B-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Enceinte acoustique destinée à la reproduction des sons dans la plage de fréquences sonores de 20 Hz à 80 Hz.
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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Using “caisson de basse”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-A-I-S-S-O-N- -D-E- -B-A-S-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɛ.sɔ̃ də bas\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.