cassants
\ka.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“cassants” is uncommon French (frequency #91,508 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,508
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de cassant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cassants · cassants · French
cassants · rank #91,508 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,508
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cassard
Nearest frequency peer: cassard (+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 « cassants »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Carqueiranne
Carqueiranne
8,497 corpus weight
- carthaginoi…
carthaginoise
8,496 corpus weight
- cartographes
cartographes
8,495 corpus weight
- cassants
cassants
8,493 corpus weight
- cassard
cassard
8,492 corpus weight
- castelo
castelo
8,491 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cassants » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cassants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,508 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cassants » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cassants is uncommon French at frequency #91,508 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de cassant.".
cassants has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cassants, spelled C-A-S-S-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de cassant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cassants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais comme ces Ouvriers employent le fer le moins cher pour la fabrication de cette denrée, il eſt ordinaire que les cloux qu’ils vendent ſont aigres & caſſants ; enſorte que, quand un Ouvrier veut s’en ſervir, ces cloux caſſent ſous ſon marteau, il perd ſon temps & le cloux.
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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