caus
\ˈkaws\
The verdict
“caus” is uncommon French (frequency #85,554 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,554
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de cau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caus · caus · French
caus · rank #85,554 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,554
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cassan
Nearest frequency peer: Cassan (-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 « caus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caricaturant
caricaturant
14,450 corpus weight
- Casabianca
Casabianca
14,449 corpus weight
- Cassan
Cassan
14,448 corpus weight
- caus
caus
14,447 corpus weight
- centipede
centipede
14,446 corpus weight
- ceti
ceti
14,445 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈkaws\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #85,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caus is uncommon French at frequency #85,554 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈkaws\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de cau.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for caus, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is caus, spelled C-A-U-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de cau.
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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