casemate
\kaz.mat\
The verdict
“casemate” is uncommon French (frequency #84,616 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,616
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réduit d'un fort, généralement souterrain, à l'épreuve des bombes et des obus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-casemate · casemate · French
casemate · rank #84,616 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,616
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH catamarans
Nearest frequency peer: catamarans (+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 « casemate »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caracole
caracole
15,388 corpus weight
- caramélisées
caramélisées
15,387 corpus weight
- casemate
casemate
15,385 corpus weight
- catamarans
catamarans
15,384 corpus weight
- catfish
catfish
15,383 corpus weight
- Cattenom
Cattenom
15,382 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « casemate » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | casemate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaz.mat\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « casemate » en français
Rare enough to double-check
casemate is uncommon French at frequency #84,616 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaz.mat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for casemate, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is casemate, spelled C-A-S-E-M-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Réduit d'un fort, généralement souterrain, à l'épreuve des bombes et des obus.
- 2Redoute fortifiée, à l’épreuve du canon.
- 3Trou de renard ou de blaireau, dans lequel ils se défendent contre les chiens.
- 4Lieu d’aisance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how casemate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est mort à la caserne, pendant une épidémie, quatre mois après son incorporation. Ces garnisons de l’Est sont dures pour les recrues, surtout les casemates.
À l’intérieur de la citadelle, dans une de ces profondes casemates, impénétrables aux gros obus.
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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