cassin

\ka.sɛ̃\

/\ka.sɛ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“cassin” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,220. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#42,220
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Châssis au-dessus du métier à tisser la soie, où sont attachées les poulies.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cassin · cassin · French

cassin · rank #42,220 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #42,220
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cassait

Nearest frequency peer: cassait (-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 « cassin »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « cassin » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

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).

cassin vs catin
67% similar
cassin vs Cousin
50% similar
cassin vs cassis
83% similar

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

Key facts for cassin
PropertyValue
Headwordcassin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.sɛ̃\
Letters6
Frequency rank#42,220
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cassin »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.cassinse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « cassait » (#42,219), « causeur » (#42,221), « cascadeur » (#42,218). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cassin » est au #42,220. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around cassin (IPA \ka.sɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,220 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for cassin, with forms such as "acssin", "casin", and "casisn". 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, "catin", "Cousin", "cassis", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cassin, spelled C-A-S-S-I-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Châssis au-dessus du métier à tisser la soie, où sont attachées les poulies.
  2. 2
    Seau utilisé par les teinturiers pour la soie.
  3. 3
    Grande louche dont les teinturiers se servent pour verser la teinture pure dans le bain.
  4. 4
    Grande louche des confiseurs.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Dans le cassin les poulies étaient placées par rangées suivant un plan incliné, de sorte que les cordes en descendaient sans se confondre et étaient régulièrement distribuées sur les fils de la chaîne.
  2. Les écumoires en cuivre (fig. 140), une grande cuiller ronde, un cassin à bec (fig. 141) pour les gelées, un pochon avec son plat pour les marmelades, un grand versoir pour les calottes (fig. 142); voilà les ustensiles en cuivre.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acssin
  • casin
  • casisn
  • cassinn
  • cassni
  • ccassin
  • csasin

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cassin - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

acssin2casin1casisn2cassinn1cassni2ccassin1csasin2
Edit distance from "cassin"

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 "cassin"?
"cassin" is spelled C-A-S-S-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.sɛ̃\.
What does "cassin" mean?
As a noun, "cassin" means: Châssis au-dessus du métier à tisser la soie, où sont attachées les poulies.
What words are commonly confused with "cassin"?
"cassin" is commonly confused with "catin", "Cousin", "cassis". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cassin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cassin" is \ka.sɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cassin" come from?
"cassin" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

cambre#42,213Bègles#42,209coelho#42,233brodée#42,202

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

circa7 variantsBurnett7 variantsBurka7 variantsBuick7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list