Casamance
\ka.sa.mɑ̃s\
The verdict
“Casamance” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,970. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,970
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Région historique et naturelle au sud-ouest du Sénégal entre la Gambie et la Guinée-Bissau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-casamance · Casamance · French
Casamance · rank #48,970 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,970
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carrer
Nearest frequency peer: carrer (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Casamance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Carlier
Carlier
51,035 corpus weight
- Carlotta
Carlotta
51,033 corpus weight
- carrer
carrer
51,032 corpus weight
- Casamance
Casamance
51,031 corpus weight
- caterpillar
caterpillar
51,030 corpus weight
- catéchèse
catéchèse
51,029 corpus weight
What this shows « Casamance » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Casamance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.sa.mɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #48,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Casamance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Casamance (IPA \ka.sa.mɑ̃s\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #48,970 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Région historique et naturelle au sud-ouest du Sénégal entre la Gambie et la Guinée-Bissau.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Casamance, with forms such as "acsamance", "caasmance", and "casaamnce". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Casamance, spelled C-A-S-A-M-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Région historique et naturelle au sud-ouest du Sénégal entre la Gambie et la Guinée-Bissau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Casamance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après avoir relevé l’identité de Gauthier, Julius le Chien fit un coup de lèche-main à Loussa de Casamance, façon de m’approuver dans le choix de mes amitiés.
Dans le sud-est du territoire prévaut le mandinka (ou malinké) et en Casamance (sud du Sénégal, entre la Gambie et la Guinée-Bissau), les dialectes du diola.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acsamance
- caasmance
- casaamnce
- casamacne
- casamancce
- casamanec
- casamannce
- casammance
- casamnace
- casmaance
- cassamance
- ccasamance
- csaamance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Casamance - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).