casquette

\kas.kɛt\

/\kas.kɛt\/ noun

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The verdict

“casquette” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,288. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,288
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couvre-chef traditionnellement d’homme, fait d’étoffe ou de peau, qui a ordinairement une visière sur le devant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-casquette · casquette · French

casquette · rank #10,288 · 11 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,288
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH Carla

Nearest frequency peer: Carla (-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 « casquette »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « casquette » 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).

casquette vs cassette
78% similar
casquette vs coquette
78% similar

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

Key facts for casquette
PropertyValue
Headwordcasquette
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kas.kɛt\
Letters9
Frequency rank#10,288
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « casquette »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).casquettese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Carla » (#10,287), « CAF » (#10,286), « choisissent » (#10,290). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « casquette » est au #10,288. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around casquette (IPA \kas.kɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,288 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for casquette, with forms such as "acsquette", "caqsuette", and "casqeutte". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "cassette", "coquette", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is casquette, spelled C-A-S-Q-U-E-T-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Couvre-chef traditionnellement d’homme, fait d’étoffe ou de peau, qui a ordinairement une visière sur le devant.
  2. 2
    Ce que l’on représente dans un débat, une discussion, une négociation.
  3. 3
    Accident de véhicule tout-terrain au cours duquel ce dernier bascule (par l’avant ou non) puis se retourne.
  4. 4
    Dernière étagère au sommet de la gondole permettant de placer de la décoration ou de déposer les produits qui ne rentrent pas dans le rayon.
  5. 5
    Mal de crâne ; gueule de bois.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. […] ils avaient des casquettes à visière de cuir et à galon d’or, comme les collégiens ou les « séminards » […]
  2. Quand on se rappelle avoir vu passer aux mêmes endroits ces officiers gris, tout en hausse-cols et en casquette […], cela vous fait tout de même quelque chose.

Synonyms

gapettegâpettequimpettechapeaubéretcompétencetonneau

This word in other languages

cap(English)gorra(Español)Mütze(Deutsch)barrete(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acsquette
  • caqsuette
  • casqeutte
  • casqquette
  • casquete
  • casquetet
  • casqutete
  • cassquette
  • casuqette
  • ccasquette
  • csaquette

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of casquette - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

acsquette2caqsuette2casqeutte2casqquette1casquete1casquetet2casqutete2cassquette1
Edit distance from "casquette"

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 "casquette"?
"casquette" is spelled C-A-S-Q-U-E-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kas.kɛt\.
What does "casquette" mean?
As a noun, "casquette" means: Couvre-chef traditionnellement d’homme, fait d’étoffe ou de peau, qui a ordinairement une visière sur le devant.
What words are commonly confused with "casquette"?
"casquette" is commonly confused with "cassette", "coquette". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "casquette"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "casquette" is \kas.kɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "casquette" come from?
"casquette" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

bénéfique#10,285Dunkerque#10,310débarquer#10,312électorat#10,259

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

bienvenu11 variantscrochet11 variantsdentaire11 variantsabsents11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list