cassaient
\ka.sɛ\
The verdict
“cassaient” is uncommon French (frequency #74,639 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,639
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe casser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cassaient · cassaient · French
cassaient · rank #74,639 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,639
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH casaque
Nearest frequency peer: casaque (-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 « cassaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- canins
canins
25,365 corpus weight
- Carbonne
Carbonne
25,364 corpus weight
- casaque
casaque
25,363 corpus weight
- cassaient
cassaient
25,362 corpus weight
- castillans
castillans
25,361 corpus weight
- Cathay
Cathay
25,359 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cassaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cassaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ka.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,639 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cassaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cassaient is uncommon French at frequency #74,639 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ka.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe casser.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cassaient in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cassaient, spelled C-A-S-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe casser.
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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