caresse
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,747
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
caresse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Témoignage d’affection, de tendresse ou de sensualité que l’on donne à quelqu’un, en geste ou en paroles. Pronounced \ka.ʁɛs\. Often confused with casse and cesse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caresse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,747 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for caresse is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ʁɛs\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,747 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for caresse, with forms such as "acresse", "caersse", and "carese". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "casse", "cesse", "creusé", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 caresse, spelled C-A-R-E-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Témoignage d’affection, de tendresse ou de sensualité que l’on donne à quelqu’un, en geste ou en paroles.
- 2On le dit également des animaux.
- 3Se dit aussi des choses.
- 4Témoignage par paroles d’une affection plus ou moins sincère.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acresse,caersse,carese,careses,carresse,carsese,ccaresse,craesse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for caresse
Misspelling Variants of "caresse"
Frequency rank: #13,747 in French
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Nearby French words
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