casqué
\kas.ke\
The verdict
“casqué” is uncommon French (frequency #72,995 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,995
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est coiffé d’un casque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-casque · casqué · French
casqué · rank #72,995 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,995
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cassano
Nearest frequency peer: Cassano (+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 « casqué »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- canule
canule
27,010 corpus weight
- carbonée
carbonée
27,009 corpus weight
- cardinales
cardinales
27,008 corpus weight
- casqué
casqué
27,006 corpus weight
- Cassano
Cassano
27,005 corpus weight
- cerdan
cerdan
27,003 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « casqué » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | casqué |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kas.ke\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #72,995 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « casqué » en français
Rare enough to double-check
casqué is uncommon French at frequency #72,995 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kas.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for casqué, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is casqué, spelled C-A-S-Q-U-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est coiffé d’un casque.
- 2Qui est orné d’un casque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how casqué appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il avait réussi à prendre quelques photos : des CRS à moitié endormis, bottés et casqués, le Mauser lance-grenades à la bretelle, rencognés, non loin du CHU et de la fac de droit, comme une poignée d’oiseaux mouillés, sous les grimaces provocatrices et vengeresses des masques de pierre du vieil hôtel de Cerisy ; un garde-mobile ronflant la bouche ouverte,…
D’après les premières constatations, la chute est survenue dans un virage avec des gravillons après une descente importante. Les deux jeunes filles étaient sur la trottinette, non casquées.
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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