cassant
\ka.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“cassant” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,358. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,358
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a tendance à se casser aisément.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cassant · cassant · French
cassant · rank #27,358 · 9 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,358
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caritative
Nearest frequency peer: caritative (-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 « cassant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cantonales
cantonales
72,645 corpus weight
- caritative
caritative
72,644 corpus weight
- cassant
cassant
72,643 corpus weight
- Cassel
Cassel
72,642 corpus weight
- celte
celte
72,641 corpus weight
- cercueils
cercueils
72,640 corpus weight
What this shows « cassant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cassant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,358 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cassant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cassant (IPA \ka.sɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,358 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cassant, with forms such as "acssant", "casant", and "casasnt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "cassin", "cessent", "causant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cassant, spelled C-A-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui a tendance à se casser aisément.
- 2Qui présente une forme franche et nette à la rupture.
- 3Qui affecte une autorité intransigeante.
- 4Qui possède un caractère ferme, catégorique.
- 5Ferme sous la dent, en parlant des poires, par opposition aux poires fondantes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cassant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les branches des cerisiers sont cassantes comme du verre.
C'est un homme à l'humour cassant, qui lui fit une remarque cassante.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acssant
- casant
- casasnt
- cassannt
- cassantt
- cassatn
- cassnat
- ccassant
- csasant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cassant - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cassant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).