casquette
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,288
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
casquette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Couvre-chef traditionnellement d’homme, fait d’étoffe ou de peau, qui a ordinairement une visière sur le devant. Pronounced \kas.kɛt\. Often confused with cassette and coquette.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | casquette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kas.kɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,288 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for casquette is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kas.kɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,288 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for casquette, with forms such as "acsquette", "caqsuette", and "casqeutte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "cassette", "coquette", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is casquette, spelled C-A-S-Q-U-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Couvre-chef traditionnellement d’homme, fait d’étoffe ou de peau, qui a ordinairement une visière sur le devant.
- 2Ce que l’on représente dans un débat, une discussion, une négociation.
- 3Accident de véhicule tout-terrain au cours duquel ce dernier bascule (par l’avant ou non) puis se retourne.
- 4Dernière étagère au sommet de la gondole permettant de placer de la décoration ou de déposer les produits qui ne rentrent pas dans le rayon.
- 5Mal de crâne ; gueule de bois.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acsquette,caqsuette,casqeutte,casqquette,casquete,casquetet,casqutete,cassquette,casuqette,ccasquette,csaquette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for casquette
Misspelling Variants of "casquette"
Frequency rank: #10,288 in French
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