cassants

\ka.sɑ̃\

/\ka.sɑ̃\/ adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cassants » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for cassants
PropertyValue
Headwordcassants
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ka.sɑ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#91,508
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « cassants » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).cassantstombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « cassard » (#91,509), « cartographes » (#91,506), « castelo » (#91,510). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cassants » est au #91,508. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de cassant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how cassants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cassants"?
"cassants" is spelled C-A-S-S-A-N-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.sɑ̃\.
What does "cassants" mean?
As an adjective, "cassants" means: Masculin pluriel de cassant.
How do you pronounce "cassants"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cassants" is \ka.sɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cassants", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list