Cassou
\ka.su\
The verdict
“Cassou” is uncommon French (frequency #63,604 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,604
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cassou · Cassou · French
Cassou · rank #63,604 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,604
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carnavals
Nearest frequency peer: carnavals (-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 « Cassou »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cardon
cardon
36,400 corpus weight
- cari
cari
36,399 corpus weight
- carnavals
carnavals
36,398 corpus weight
- Cassou
Cassou
36,397 corpus weight
- Cavanna
Cavanna
36,396 corpus weight
- Ceccaldi
Ceccaldi
36,395 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cassou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cassou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.su\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,604 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cassou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cassou is uncommon French at frequency #63,604 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ka.su\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille français.".
Cassou has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Cassou, spelled C-A-S-S-O-U.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Cassou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Vient qui veut, quel que soit son bord politique. La démarche est apartisane », présente Christophe Cassou, climatologue au CNRS et auteur du Groupe intergouvernemental du climat (Giec).
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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