causal
\ko.zal\
The verdict
“causal” is uncommon French (frequency #53,846 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,846
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se rapporte à une cause ou qui désigne une cause.
Corpus desk
Index FR-causal · causal · French
causal · rank #53,846 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,846
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Caucasien
Nearest frequency peer: Caucasien (-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 « causal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- castrer
castrer
46,158 corpus weight
- Catalunya
Catalunya
46,157 corpus weight
- Caucasien
Caucasien
46,156 corpus weight
- causal
causal
46,155 corpus weight
- chamane
chamane
46,153 corpus weight
- Chanteloup
Chanteloup
46,152 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « causal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | causal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ko.zal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « causal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
causal is uncommon French at frequency #53,846 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ko.zal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
causal doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is causal, spelled C-A-U-S-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui se rapporte à une cause ou qui désigne une cause.
- 2Qualifie une conjonction ou une locution qui énoncent la raison de ce qui a été dit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how causal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On peut faire se succéder indéfiniment dans une description les objets qui figuraient dans le lieu décrit, la vérité ne commencera qu'au moment où l'écrivain prendra deux objets différents, posera leur rapport, analogue dans le monde de l'art à celui qu'est le rapport unique de la loi causale dans le monde de la science, et les enfermera dans les anneaux…
Ces corrélations relèvent, bien entendu, davantage de la description que de l’explication causale et il ne faut pas en exagérer la portée.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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