casser
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,388
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
casser is aFrenchverb. It means: Briser ; rompre. Pronounced \ka.se\. It ranks #3,388 in French word frequency. Often confused with cause and cesse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | casser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ka.se\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,388 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for casser is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.se\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,388 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for casser, with forms such as "acsser", "casesr", and "casserr". 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, "cause", "cesse", "caste", 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 casser, spelled C-A-S-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Briser ; rompre.
- 2Se dit lorsqu’une mousse retombe après avoir été battue ou remuée trop énergiquement, ce qui la liquéfie en brisant les bulles d’air qu’elle contient et en chassant l’air de l’émulsion.
- 3Imprimer un angle à une ligne ou un objet droit.
- 4Affaiblir.
- 5Assouplir une chaussure, souvent par un usage modéré après leur acquisition.
- 6Annuler, déclarer nul.
- 7Rétrograder ; renvoyer.
- 8Humilier, brocarder quelqu’un par des paroles.
- 9Dire, parler.(Voir casser le morceau)
- 10Cambrioler, faire un casse.
- 11Faire la monnaie d’un billet de banque.
- 12ou Se briser, se rompre.
- 13Rompre une relation amoureuse.
- 14Partir, s’en aller.
- 15Débourrer un cheval.
- 16Faire la casse, débuter une partie en envoyant la boule blanche dans les autres disposées en triangle.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acsser,casesr,casserr,cassre,ccasser,csaser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for casser
Misspelling Variants of "casser"
Frequency rank: #3,388 in French
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