cassation

/\ka.sa.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,537

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

cassation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Acte juridique par lequel on casse des jugements, des actes et des procédures. Pronounced \ka.sa.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #7,537 in French word frequency. Often confused with cessation and castration.

Key facts for cassation
PropertyValue
Headwordcassation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.sa.sjɔ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#7,537
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cassation is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.sa.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,537 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for cassation, with forms such as "acssation", "casastion", and "casation". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "cessation", "castration", "captation", 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 cassation, spelled C-A-S-S-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Acte juridique par lequel on casse des jugements, des actes et des procédures.
  2. 2
    Décision par laquelle un arrêt ou un jugement en dernier ressort est annulé.
  3. 3
    Rétrogradation d'un gradé ou d'un sous-officier au rang de soldat de seconde classe.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acssation,casastion,casation,cassaiton,cassatino,cassationn,cassatoin,cassattion,casstaion,ccassation,csasation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cassation

Misspelling Variants of "cassation"

acssation9casastion9casation8cassaiton9cassatino9cassationn10cassatoin9cassattion10
Misspelling Variants of "cassation"

Frequency rank: #7,537 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cassation"?
"cassation" is spelled C-A-S-S-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.sa.sjɔ̃\.
What does "cassation" mean?
As a noun, "cassation" means: Acte juridique par lequel on casse des jugements, des actes et des procédures.
What words are commonly confused with "cassation"?
"cassation" is commonly confused with "cessation", "castration", "captation". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cassation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cassation" is \ka.sa.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cassation" come from?
"cassation" 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.