casi
\ˈka.θi\
The verdict
“casi” is uncommon French (frequency #59,870 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,870
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Presque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-casi · casi · French
casi · rank #59,870 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,870
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cartographiqu…
Nearest frequency peer: cartographiques (-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 « casi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caricaturis…
caricaturistes
40,134 corpus weight
- cartographi…
cartographiques
40,132 corpus weight
- casi
casi
40,131 corpus weight
- Caterina
Caterina
40,130 corpus weight
- census
census
40,129 corpus weight
- Cernay
Cernay
40,128 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « casi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | casi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ˈka.θi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,870 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « casi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
casi is uncommon French at frequency #59,870 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ˈka.θi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Presque.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for casi, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 casi, spelled C-A-S-I.
Definition
- 1Presque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how casi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comprendí que para un muchacho que no había cumplido veinte años, un hombre de más de setenta era casi un muerto.
El hombre le miraba fijamente, casi con ternura : […].
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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