cassant

/\ka.sɑ̃\/ adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#27,358

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

18

similar word pairs

cassant is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui a tendance à se casser aisément. Pronounced \ka.sɑ̃\. Often confused with cassin and cessent.

Key facts for cassant
PropertyValue
Headwordcassant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ka.sɑ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#27,358
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cassant is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.sɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #27,358 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 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for cassant, with forms such as "acssant", "casant", and "casasnt". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "cassin", "cessent", "causant", and more, 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 cassant, spelled C-A-S-S-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui a tendance à se casser aisément.
  2. 2
    Qui présente une forme franche et nette à la rupture.
  3. 3
    Qui affecte une autorité intransigeante.
  4. 4
    Qui possède un caractère ferme, catégorique.
  5. 5
    Ferme sous la dent, en parlant des poires, par opposition aux poires fondantes.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acssant,casant,casasnt,cassannt,cassantt,cassatn,cassnat,ccassant,csasant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cassant

Misspelling Variants of "cassant"

acssant7casant6casasnt7cassannt8cassantt8cassatn7cassnat7ccassant8
Misspelling Variants of "cassant"

Frequency rank: #27,358 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cassant"?
"cassant" is spelled C-A-S-S-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.sɑ̃\.
What does "cassant" mean?
As an adj, "cassant" means: Qui a tendance à se casser aisément.
What words are commonly confused with "cassant"?
"cassant" is commonly confused with "cassin", "cessent", "causant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cassant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cassant" is \ka.sɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cassant" come from?
"cassant" 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.