caissons

\kɛ.sɔ̃\

/\kɛ.sɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“caissons” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,929. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#30,929
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de caisson.

Corpus desk

Index FR-caissons · caissons · French

caissons · rank #30,929 · 10 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #30,929
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH bûcheron

Nearest frequency peer: bûcheron (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « caissons »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « caissons » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

caissons vs cassos
75% similar
caissons vs cuisson
75% similar
caissons vs cessons
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for caissons
PropertyValue
Headwordcaissons
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɛ.sɔ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#30,929
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « caissons »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).caissonsse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bûcheron » (#30,928), « cancéreuses » (#30,930), « bénéficieront » (#30,927). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « caissons » est au #30,929. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around caissons (IPA \kɛ.sɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,929 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de caisson.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for caissons, with forms such as "acissons", "caisons", and "caisosns". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "cassos", "cuisson", "cessons", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is caissons, spelled C-A-I-S-S-O-N-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de caisson.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how caissons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Monseigneur a fait marcher la cavalerie sur deux colonnes, les caissons et les petits bagages à la tête de tout.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acissons
  • caisons
  • caisosns
  • caissnos
  • caissonns
  • caissonss
  • caissosn
  • casisons
  • ccaissons
  • ciassons

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caissons - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

acissons2caisons1caisosns2caissnos2caissonns1caissonss1caissosn2casisons2
Edit distance from "caissons"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "caissons"?
"caissons" is spelled C-A-I-S-S-O-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kɛ.sɔ̃\.
What does "caissons" mean?
As a noun, "caissons" means: Pluriel de caisson.
What words are commonly confused with "caissons"?
"caissons" is commonly confused with "cassos", "cuisson", "cessons". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "caissons"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "caissons" is \kɛ.sɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "caissons" come from?
"caissons" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "caissons", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list