cas d’école

\ka d‿e.kɔl\

/\ka d‿e.kɔl\/ noun

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.

Key facts for cas d’école
PropertyValue
Headwordcas d’école
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka d‿e.kɔl\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « cas d’école » en français

cas d’écolen'entre pas dans le top 100.000 du français: zone de termes techniques, archaïques ou rares.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Cas qui correspond exactement au modèle théorique enseigné.
  2. 2
    Situation hypothétique qui permet de saisir les limites d’un raisonnement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cas d’école"?
"cas d’école" is spelled C-A-S- -D-’-É-C-O-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ka d‿e.kɔl\.
What does "cas d’école" mean?
As a noun, "cas d’école" means: Cas qui correspond exactement au modèle théorique enseigné.
How do you pronounce "cas d’école"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cas d’école" is \ka d‿e.kɔl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cas d’école" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list