cas d’école
\ka d‿e.kɔl\
The verdict
“cas d’école” 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) - Cas qui correspond exactement au modèle théorique enseigné.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cas-d-ecole · cas d’école · French
cas d’école · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 d’école |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka d‿e.kɔl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
cas d’école is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka d‿e.kɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cas d’école, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cas d’école, spelled C-A-S- -D-’-É-C-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Cas qui correspond exactement au modèle théorique enseigné.
- 2Situation hypothétique qui permet de saisir les limites d’un raisonnement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cas d’école appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le cas particulier de ce dossier, il s’agit d’un cas typique, d’un cas d’école pourrait-on dire, tel qu’on le trouve décrit dans tous les manuels d’enseignement et tel qu’il est expliqué dans les écoles de sages-femmes.
Les élèves noteront un cas d’école classique pour la formulation et d’actualité car le principal assistant concerné donnait… des cours de formation aux élus MoDem.
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.