casaque
\ka.zak\
The verdict
“casaque” is uncommon French (frequency #74,638 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,638
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de manteau militaire, qui avait ordinairement des manches fort larges.
Corpus desk
Index FR-casaque · casaque · French
casaque · rank #74,638 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,638
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Carbonne
Nearest frequency peer: Carbonne (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « casaque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- camouflés
camouflés
25,366 corpus weight
- canins
canins
25,365 corpus weight
- Carbonne
Carbonne
25,364 corpus weight
- casaque
casaque
25,363 corpus weight
- cassaient
cassaient
25,362 corpus weight
- castillans
castillans
25,361 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « casaque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | casaque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.zak\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « casaque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
casaque is uncommon French at frequency #74,638 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.zak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for casaque in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 casaque, spelled C-A-S-A-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte de manteau militaire, qui avait ordinairement des manches fort larges.
- 2Sorte de vêtement de dessus, veste, veston.
- 3Partie supérieure de la tenue des jockeys.
- 4Haut, ou bas d'uniforme de prisonniers, galériens, au temps des galères.
- 5Habit pour les chirurgiens lors des opérations.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how casaque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les mousquetaires portaient des casaques.
Les valets eux-mêmes, dépouillant leurs somptueuses livrées pour revêtir de fortes casaques de cuir, ont été armés de pistolets et occupent différents postes stratégiques de défense.
This word in other languages
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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