case
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,916
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
case is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petite habitation traditionnelle, sous les tropiques. Pronounced \kaz\. It ranks #4,916 in French word frequency. Often confused with ce and Cs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | case |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaz\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for case is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaz\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,916 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for case, with forms such as "acse", "caes", and "ccase". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ce", "Cs", "ces", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is case, spelled C-A-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petite habitation traditionnelle, sous les tropiques.
- 2Logement rudimentaire des esclaves africains dans les plantations et habitations coloniales. Après l'abolition de l'esclavage, l'employé de la plantation habitait la même case.
- 3Sous les tropiques, maison ou habitation de taille variable.
- 4Compartiment d’un casier, d’une boîte, d’un tiroir, d’une bibliothèque, d’une consigne, etc.
- 5Subdivision dans un registre, un formulaire ou dans un tableau, formées par les lignes qui coupent les colonnes transversalement
- 6Élément de l'interface d'un logiciel qui permet à l'utilisateur de saisir une information ou de cocher une préférence.
- 7Endroit délimité sur un plateau de jeu.
- 8Casier.
- 9Étape d’un processus.
- 10Dans le domaine de la bande dessinée, zone de dessin délimitée par un cadre. On dit aussi vignette.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acse,caes,ccase,csae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "case"
Frequency rank: #4,916 in French
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