casquette

/\kas.kɛt\/ noun

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.

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)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of casquette in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  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.

Synonyms

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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"

acsquette9caqsuette9casqeutte9casqquette10casquete8casquetet9casqutete9cassquette10
Misspelling Variants of "casquette"

Frequency rank: #10,288 in French

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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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.