casquer
\kas.ke\
The verdict
“casquer” is uncommon French (frequency #86,524 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,524
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Recouvrir d’un casque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-casquer · casquer · French
casquer · rank #86,524 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,524
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cartoucherie
Nearest frequency peer: cartoucherie (-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 « casquer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- carnés
carnés
13,480 corpus weight
- carpelles
carpelles
13,479 corpus weight
- cartoucherie
cartoucherie
13,478 corpus weight
- casquer
casquer
13,477 corpus weight
- castell
castell
13,476 corpus weight
- castriste
castriste
13,475 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « casquer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | casquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kas.ke\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « casquer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
casquer is uncommon French at frequency #86,524 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kas.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for casquer, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is casquer, spelled C-A-S-Q-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Recouvrir d’un casque.
- 2Recouvrir la tête à la manière d’un casque.
- 3Mettre un casque.
- 4Se couvrir la tête à la manière d’un casque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how casquer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils sont arrivés casqués et cagoulés, j’ai eu une de ces peurs !
Un tablier de mohair noir parait le devant de sa jupe, et ses bondissants cheveux, disciplinés, tordus en « huit », casquaient étroitement la forme charmante et nouvelle d’une tête ronde, impérieuse, qui n’avait plus d’enfantin que sa fraîcheur et son impudence, pas encore mesurée, de petite dévergondée villageoise.
This word in other languages
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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