casus
The verdict
“casus” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,398. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,398
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chute.
Corpus desk
Index FR-casus · casus · French
casus · rank #48,398 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,398
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Carrington
Nearest frequency peer: Carrington (-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 « casus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Carmichael
Carmichael
51,607 corpus weight
- Carnac
Carnac
51,606 corpus weight
- carolingien…
carolingienne
51,605 corpus weight
- Carrington
Carrington
51,604 corpus weight
- casus
casus
51,603 corpus weight
- charitables
charitables
51,599 corpus weight
What this shows « casus » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | casus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #48,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « casus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around casus, anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,398 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for casus, with forms such as "acsus", "cassu", and "cassus". 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, "CSS", "CSU", "crus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 casus, spelled C-A-S-U-S.
Definition
- 1Chute.
- 2Déclin, chute, ruine, perte.
- 3Hasard, occasion.
- 4Accident, sinistre.
- 5Cas grammatical dans une déclinaison avec diverses désinences.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how casus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
quod saepe in bello parvis momentis magni casus intercederent
casum victoriae invenire
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acsus
- cassu
- cassus
- casuss
- causs
- ccasus
- csaus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of casus - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).