casse

\kɑs\

/\kɑs\/ noun

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The verdict

“casse” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,411) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#2,411
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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.

Corpus desk

Index FR-casse · casse · French

casse · rank #2,411 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,411
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH caisse

Nearest frequency peer: caisse (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « casse »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « casse » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

casse vs CSS
0% similar
casse vs cave
60% similar
casse vs cats
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for casse
PropertyValue
Headwordcasse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɑs\
Letters5
Frequency rank#2,411
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « casse »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).cassese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « caisse » (#2,410), « cache » (#2,409), « Cm » (#2,413). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « casse » est au #2,411. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for casse is neighbouring look-alikes ("CSS", "cave", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \kɑs\. Frequency #2,411 among 8,609 “C” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for casse, with forms such as "acsse", "cases", and "ccasse". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CSS", "cave", "cats", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is casse, spelled C-A-S-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    La partie de l’écritoire de poche où l’on met les plumes.
  3. 3
    La distinction entre les lettres majuscules et des lettres minuscules, avec ou sans accents ou signes, dans un mot.
  4. 4
    Règle de jeu qui interdit la déviation de la balle jouée par les demis (milieux) adverses avec ses propres demis.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La justification prise , le compositeur prend une galée ou in-fol. ou in-4° ou in-8°. suivant le format de l’ouvrage sur lequel il va travailler , & la place sur les petites capitales de sa casse de romain.
  2. La casse de l’écritoire est rompue.

This word in other languages

case(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acsse
  • cases
  • ccasse
  • csase

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of casse - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

acsse2cases2ccasse1csase2
Edit distance from "casse"

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 "casse"?
"casse" is spelled C-A-S-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɑs\.
What does "casse" mean?
As a noun, "casse" 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.
What words are commonly confused with "casse"?
"casse" is commonly confused with "CSS", "cave", "cats". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "casse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "casse" is \kɑs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "casse" come from?
"casse" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

cache#2,409voter#2,400voies#2,398venue#2,397

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list