cas contact
\kɑ kɔ̃.takt\
The verdict
“cas contact” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne identifiée comme ayant fréquenté une personne porteuse d'une maladie contagieuse, et donc susceptible elle-même d'être infectée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cas-contact · cas contact · French
cas contact · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cas contact |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ kɔ̃.takt\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
cas contact is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɑ kɔ̃.takt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cas contact, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cas contact, spelled C-A-S- -C-O-N-T-A-C-T.
Definition
- 1Personne identifiée comme ayant fréquenté une personne porteuse d'une maladie contagieuse, et donc susceptible elle-même d'être infectée.
- 2Cas contact pour la maladie Covid-19.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cas contact appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le gouvernement s’est fixé comme objectif d’identifier 75 % des cas contacts.
Pour le ministre, il faut également veiller à ne pas élargir outre mesure les chaînes de transmission : « les cas contacts des cas contacts ne sont pas des cas contacts ».
Synonyms
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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.