cassent
\kas\
The verdict
“cassent” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,823. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,823
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe casser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cassent · cassent · French
cassent · rank #16,823 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,823
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cargaison
Nearest frequency peer: cargaison (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cassent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- boulots
boulots
83,181 corpus weight
- cabines
cabines
83,180 corpus weight
- cargaison
cargaison
83,179 corpus weight
- cassent
cassent
83,178 corpus weight
- Caucase
Caucase
83,177 corpus weight
- caviar
caviar
83,176 corpus weight
What this shows « cassent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cassent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kas\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,823 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cassent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cassent (IPA \kas\), averb. Corpus frequency is #16,823 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cassent, with forms such as "acssent", "casent", and "casesnt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "casser", "casses", "cassez", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cassent, spelled C-A-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe casser.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe casser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cassent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En juillet, Visan honore le vin au cours d’une fête haute en couleurs : portée en procession au son des galoubets et des tambourins, une souche enrubannée, ornée de pampres de vignes, est bénie puis symboliquement brûlée, puis, à coups de masse, le roi, la reine et le lieutenant de la confrérie vigneronne locale, élus du jour, cassent le « marot » (pan de…
Il est rare que ces matieres souffrent l’eau bouillante pour les décimenter, sans que les manches se cassent ou se fendent.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acssent
- casent
- casesnt
- cassennt
- cassentt
- cassetn
- cassnet
- ccassent
- csasent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cassent - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cassent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).