casserole

/\ka.sʁɔl\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#15,105

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

casserole is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ustensile de cuisine à fond plat et à bords haut, généralement utilisé dans la confection de recettes à base de liquides. Pronounced \ka.sʁɔl\. Often confused with casseroles.

Key facts for casserole
PropertyValue
Headwordcasserole
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.sʁɔl\
Letters9
Frequency rank#15,105
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for casserole is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.sʁɔl\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,105 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 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 casserole, with forms such as "acsserole", "caserole", and "casesrole". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "casseroles", 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 casserole, spelled C-A-S-S-E-R-O-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ustensile de cuisine à fond plat et à bords haut, généralement utilisé dans la confection de recettes à base de liquides.
  2. 2
    Un mets de nourriture cuite, supposément dans une casserole.
  3. 3
    Objet qui produit un bruit discordant.
  4. 4
    Objet qui produit un bruit discordant.
  5. 5
    Objet qui produit un bruit discordant.
  6. 6
    ou Piètre chanteur ou chanteuse, qui chante faux et sans harmonie.
  7. 7
    Mauvaise affaire dans laquelle l’on est compromis.
  8. 8
    Mouchard, dénonciateur.
  9. 9
    Femme vieille et laide.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acsserole,caserole,casesrole,casseorle,casserloe,casseroel,casserolle,casserrole,cassreole,ccasserole,csaserole

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for casserole

Misspelling Variants of "casserole"

acsserole9caserole8casesrole9casseorle9casserloe9casseroel9casserolle10casserrole10
Misspelling Variants of "casserole"

Frequency rank: #15,105 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "casserole"?
"casserole" is spelled C-A-S-S-E-R-O-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.sʁɔl\.
What does "casserole" mean?
As a noun, "casserole" means: Ustensile de cuisine à fond plat et à bords haut, généralement utilisé dans la confection de recettes à base de liquides.
What words are commonly confused with "casserole"?
"casserole" is commonly confused with "casseroles". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "casserole"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "casserole" is \ka.sʁɔl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "casserole" come from?
"casserole" 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.