cashback
\kaʃ.bak\
The verdict
“cashback” is uncommon French (frequency #53,189 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,189
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de cash back.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cashback · cashback · French
cashback · rank #53,189 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,189
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cappuccino
Nearest frequency peer: cappuccino (-2 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 « cashback »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- canopée
canopée
46,815 corpus weight
- cappuccino
cappuccino
46,814 corpus weight
- cashback
cashback
46,812 corpus weight
- Caspar
Caspar
46,810 corpus weight
- Catwoman
Catwoman
46,809 corpus weight
- causette
causette
46,808 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cashback » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cashback |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʃ.bak\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cashback » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cashback is uncommon French at frequency #53,189 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaʃ.bak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de cash back.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cashback, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cashback, spelled C-A-S-H-B-A-C-K.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de cash back.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cashback appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La SNCF a annoncé vouloir arrêter sa pratique du cashback en mettant fin à son partenariat avec l'entreprise Webloyalty, spécialisée dans ce genre de techniques marketing.
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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