cashback

\kaʃ.bak\

/\kaʃ.bak\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cashback » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for cashback
PropertyValue
Headwordcashback
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kaʃ.bak\
Letters8
Frequency rank#53,189
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « cashback » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).cashbacktombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « cappuccino » (#53,187), « Caspar » (#53,191), « canopée » (#53,186). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cashback » est au #53,189. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Variante orthographique de cash back.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how cashback appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cashback"?
"cashback" is spelled C-A-S-H-B-A-C-K. The IPA pronunciation is \kaʃ.bak\.
What does "cashback" mean?
As a noun, "cashback" means: Variante orthographique de cash back.
How do you pronounce "cashback"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cashback" is \kaʃ.bak\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cashback", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list