cauchemar
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,592
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
cauchemar is aFrenchnoun. It means: Oppression ou étouffement qui survient quelquefois durant le sommeil, mais qui cesse dès qu’on se réveille. Pronounced \koʃ.maʁ\. It ranks #6,592 in French word frequency. Often confused with cauchemars.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cauchemar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \koʃ.maʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cauchemar is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \koʃ.maʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,592 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for cauchemar, with forms such as "acuchemar", "cacuhemar", and "caucchemar". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "cauchemars", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cauchemar, spelled C-A-U-C-H-E-M-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Oppression ou étouffement qui survient quelquefois durant le sommeil, mais qui cesse dès qu’on se réveille.
- 2Rêve pénible ou effrayant, provoquant l'angoisse.
- 3Situation qui laisse un mauvais souvenir ou que l'on redoute.
- 4Personne ou chose très ennuyeuse, très importune.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acuchemar,cacuhemar,caucchemar,caucehmar,caucheamr,cauchemarr,cauchemmar,cauchemra,cauchhemar,cauchmear,cauhcemar,ccauchemar,cuachemar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "cauchemar"
Frequency rank: #6,592 in French
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