cas
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#157
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cas is aFrenchnoun. It means: Accident, aventure, conjoncture, occasion ; fait arrivé, ou qui peut arriver. Pronounced \kɑ\. It ranks #157 in French word frequency. Often confused with ce and ci.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cas is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɑ\. Corpus data places it at rank #157 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cas in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ce", "ci", "co", 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 cas, spelled C-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Accident, aventure, conjoncture, occasion ; fait arrivé, ou qui peut arriver.
- 2Manifestation d’une maladie ou d’un problème chez une personne (typiquement utilisé pour introduire un chiffre).
- 3Personne qui cause beaucoup de problèmes ou qui a des problèmes psychologiques.
- 4Occasion ; Situation
- 5Fait, action, crime.
- 6Estime.
- 7Déjection, excrément.
- 8Derrière ; cul.
- 9Chacune des différentes formes que prennent certains mots (les pronoms, les noms, quelquefois les adjectifs, les déterminants et les participes) selon leur fonction dans la phrase. En français, seulement les pronoms personnels ont plus d’une forme. Il y a aussi des langues où les cas sont marqués par des particules comme le japonais et le coréen.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #157 in French
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