casino

\ka.zi.no\

/\ka.zi.no\/ noun

The verdict

“casino” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,059. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,059
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
17
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Établissement de jeu, de lecture, de conversation, etc., avec ou sans théâtre, qui se trouve dans les stations balnéaires ou thermales.

Corpus desk

Index FR-casino · casino · French

casino · rank #6,059 · 8 variants · 17 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,059
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH carrés

Nearest frequency peer: carrés (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « casino »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « casino » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

casino vs catin
67% similar
casino vs chino
67% similar
casino vs castro
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for casino
PropertyValue
Headwordcasino
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.zi.no\
Letters6
Frequency rank#6,059
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « casino »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.casinose place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « carrés » (#6,058), « chaine » (#6,060), « Carl » (#6,057). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « casino » est au #6,059. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around casino (IPA \ka.zi.no\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,059 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for casino, with forms such as "acsino", "caisno", and "casinno". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "catin", "chino", "castro", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is casino, spelled C-A-S-I-N-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Établissement de jeu, de lecture, de conversation, etc., avec ou sans théâtre, qui se trouve dans les stations balnéaires ou thermales.
  2. 2
    Établissement de jeu de hasard.
  3. 3
    Jeu des financiers, qui boursicotent, au lieu de financer l’investissement économique productif.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Cette hypothèse paraît vraisemblable si l’on vient à songer […] qu’avant d’y arriver, les curieux reconnaissent, çà et là, plus d’un casino dont l’intérieur et le décor trahissent les spirituelles débauches de nos aïeux.
  2. Devant l’église, de petits groupes papotants se formèrent et presque tout le monde dévala par une ruelle poussiéreuse étouffée entre une grande prairie et des villas isolées, vers l’un des petits casinos du village, rendez-vous du dimanche matin.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acsino
  • caisno
  • casinno
  • casion
  • casnio
  • cassino
  • ccasino
  • csaino

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of casino - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

acsino2caisno2casinno1casion2casnio2cassino1ccasino1csaino2
Edit distance from "casino"

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 "casino"?
"casino" is spelled C-A-S-I-N-O. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.zi.no\.
What does "casino" mean?
As a noun, "casino" means: Établissement de jeu, de lecture, de conversation, etc., avec ou sans théâtre, qui se trouve dans les stations balnéaires ou thermales.
What words are commonly confused with "casino"?
"casino" is commonly confused with "catin", "chino", "castro". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "casino"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "casino" is \ka.zi.no\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "casino" come from?
"casino" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list