cassa
\ka.sa\
The verdict
“cassa” is uncommon French (frequency #65,008 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,008
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de casser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cassa · cassa · French
cassa · rank #65,008 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,008
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caséine
Nearest frequency peer: caséine (+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 « cassa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- capétiens
capétiens
34,996 corpus weight
- caramels
caramels
34,995 corpus weight
- cassa
cassa
34,993 corpus weight
- caséine
caséine
34,992 corpus weight
- Cauvin
Cauvin
34,991 corpus weight
- CCM
CCM
34,990 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cassa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cassa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ka.sa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,008 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cassa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cassa is uncommon French at frequency #65,008 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ka.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de casser.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cassa, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cassa, spelled C-A-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de casser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cassa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On cassa les verres pour qu’ils ne servissent plus jamais.
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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