casse
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,411
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
casse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Boîte plate et découverte, composée de deux parties, le haut de casse (majuscules) et le bas de casse (minuscules), et divisée en petites cases pour chaque caractère. Pronounced \kɑs\. It ranks #2,411 in French word frequency. Often confused with CSS and cave.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | casse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for casse is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɑs\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,411 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for casse, with forms such as "acsse", "cases", and "ccasse". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CSS", "cave", "cats", 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 casse, spelled C-A-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Boîte plate et découverte, composée de deux parties, le haut de casse (majuscules) et le bas de casse (minuscules), et divisée en petites cases pour chaque caractère.
- 2La partie de l’écritoire de poche où l’on met les plumes.
- 3La distinction entre les lettres majuscules et des lettres minuscules, avec ou sans accents ou signes, dans un mot.
- 4Règle de jeu qui interdit la déviation de la balle jouée par les demis (milieux) adverses avec ses propres demis.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acsse,cases,ccasse,csase
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for casse
Misspelling Variants of "casse"
Frequency rank: #2,411 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: