caucus
\ko.kys\
The verdict
“caucus” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,511. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,511
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réunion à huis clos des membres d’un parti politique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caucus · caucus · French
caucus · rank #30,511 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,511
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cata
Nearest frequency peer: cata (-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 « caucus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Capri
Capri
69,493 corpus weight
- carbon
carbon
69,492 corpus weight
- cata
cata
69,491 corpus weight
- caucus
caucus
69,490 corpus weight
- centièmes
centièmes
69,489 corpus weight
- Ceylan
Ceylan
69,488 corpus weight
What this shows « caucus » 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 | caucus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ko.kys\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #30,511 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « caucus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around caucus (IPA \ko.kys\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,511 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for caucus, with forms such as "acucus", "cacuus", and "cauccus". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "conçus", "causés", "circus", and more, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is caucus, spelled C-A-U-C-U-S.
Definition
- 1Réunion à huis clos des membres d’un parti politique.
- 2Ensemble des députés d’un même parti siégeant à la législature.
- 3Groupe de parlementaires réunis dans un but particulier.
- 4Réunion pour la désignation du candidat aux élections présidentielles.
- 5Réunion des joueurs avant le début d’un match dans le but de convenir d’une stratégie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caucus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lionel s’était arrêté un instant, incertain du parti qu’il devait prendre, lorsque la lueur d’un réverbère éclaira les traits du passant, et il reconnut le chef actif des Caucus (nom qu’on donnait à l’assemblée politique à laquelle il avait assisté), mais si bien déguisé et si complètement enveloppé dans son manteau, que si le hasard ne le lui eût pas fai…
Remarquons comment la « ligne dure » est revenue au gouvernement depuis le conseil des ministres et le caucus libéral d’hier.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acucus
- cacuus
- cauccus
- caucsu
- caucuss
- cauucs
- ccaucus
- cuacus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caucus - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).