Caucase
\kɔ.kaz\
The verdict
“Caucase” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,824. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,824
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chaîne de montagnes qui s’allonge sur 1,200 km, du détroit de Kertch sur la mer Noire à la presqu’île d’Apchéron sur la mer Caspienne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caucase · Caucase · French
Caucase · rank #16,824 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,824
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cassent
Nearest frequency peer: cassent (-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 « Caucase »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cabines
cabines
83,180 corpus weight
- cargaison
cargaison
83,179 corpus weight
- cassent
cassent
83,178 corpus weight
- Caucase
Caucase
83,177 corpus weight
- caviar
caviar
83,176 corpus weight
- Cayenne
Cayenne
83,175 corpus weight
What this shows « Caucase » 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 | Caucase |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.kaz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Caucase »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Caucase (IPA \kɔ.kaz\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #16,824 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Chaîne de montagnes qui s’allonge sur 1,200 km, du détroit de Kertch sur la mer Noire à la presqu’île d’Apchéron sur la mer Caspienne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Caucase, with forms such as "acucase", "cacuase", and "cauacse". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "cause", "caucus", "causse", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Caucase, spelled C-A-U-C-A-S-E.
Definition
- 1Chaîne de montagnes qui s’allonge sur 1,200 km, du détroit de Kertch sur la mer Noire à la presqu’île d’Apchéron sur la mer Caspienne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Caucase appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le général nous donna des détails très intéressants sur les langues qui se parlent dans le Caucase, et dont les unes sont aryennes et les autres touraniennes, bien qu'entre les différentes peuplades il y ait une remarquable conformité de mœurs et de coutumes.
Après un long et intéressant trajet à travers les provinces de la Russie méridionale, j’avais franchi le Caucase et je comptais bien me reposer dans la capitale de la Transcaucasie…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acucase
- cacuase
- cauacse
- caucaes
- caucasse
- cauccase
- caucsae
- ccaucase
- cuacase
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Caucase - 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.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).