causait
\ko.zɛ\
The verdict
“causait” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,695. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,695
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe causer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-causait · causait · French
causait · rank #39,695 · 8 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,695
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cataracte
Nearest frequency peer: cataracte (-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 « causait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- carburateur
carburateur
60,309 corpus weight
- cataracte
cataracte
60,307 corpus weight
- causait
causait
60,306 corpus weight
- causerait
causerait
60,305 corpus weight
- cdr
cdr
60,304 corpus weight
- cens
cens
60,303 corpus weight
What this shows « causait » 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 | causait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ko.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « causait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around causait (IPA \ko.zɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #39,695 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe causer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for causait, with forms such as "casuait", "cauasit", and "causaitt". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "causant", "causent", "courait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 causait, spelled C-A-U-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe causer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how causait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gilet causait, politiquait et se promenait quelquefois avec le père Rouget.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- casuait
- cauasit
- causaitt
- causati
- causiat
- caussait
- ccausait
- cuasait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of causait - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).