Cassius
The verdict
“Cassius” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #30,934 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #30,934
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qualifie une montagne de la Bétique.
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 | Cassius |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #30,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Cassius” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Cassius is 7 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #30,934 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qualifie une montagne de la Bétique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cassius, with forms such as "acssius", "casisus", and "casius". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "casus", "cassos", "châssis", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Cassius, spelled C-A-S-S-I-U-S.
Definition
- 1Qualifie une montagne de la Bétique.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acssius,casisus,casius,cassisu,cassiuss,cassuis,ccassius,csasius
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cassius - 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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Using “Cassius”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-A-S-S-I-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “casus” - see the side-by-side comparison. Cassius vs casus
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.