cassonade
\ka.sɔ.nad\
The verdict
“cassonade” is uncommon French (frequency #68,116 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,116
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sucre cristallisé roux obtenu directement à l’issue de la première cuisson du jus de canne et qui n’a été raffiné qu’une fois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cassonade · cassonade · French
cassonade · rank #68,116 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,116
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH catcheurs
Nearest frequency peer: catcheurs (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cassonade »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caplan
caplan
31,889 corpus weight
- cassonade
cassonade
31,885 corpus weight
- catcheurs
catcheurs
31,884 corpus weight
- caverneux
caverneux
31,883 corpus weight
- cayeux
cayeux
31,882 corpus weight
- certifiant
certifiant
31,881 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cassonade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cassonade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.sɔ.nad\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cassonade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cassonade is uncommon French at frequency #68,116 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.sɔ.nad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
cassonade doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cassonade, spelled C-A-S-S-O-N-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Sucre cristallisé roux obtenu directement à l’issue de la première cuisson du jus de canne et qui n’a été raffiné qu’une fois.
- 2Sucre brun non-raffiné provenant généralement du sirop résiduel de la cristallisation du sucre ou sucre brun résultant d’un ajout de sirop de raffineur (sorte de mélasse) à du sucre blanc.
- 3Blond roux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cassonade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fouettez les jaunes d'œuf avec 10 g de cassonade pour les blanchir.
La meunière obéit, et, pendant qu’on disait les prières des agonisants, elle pétrit ensemble de la farine, du beurre, de la cassonade et mit son gaufrier sur le feu.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).