cause
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#332
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cause is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui fait qu’une chose est ou s’opère. Pronounced \koz\. It ranks #332 in French word frequency. Often confused with cave and cure.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cause |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \koz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #332 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cause is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \koz\. Corpus data places it at rank #332 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for cause, with forms such as "acuse", "casue", and "caues". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cave", "cure", "crue", 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 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 cause, spelled C-A-U-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce qui fait qu’une chose est ou s’opère.
- 2Ce qui produit ou occasionne, en parlant des personnes ou des choses.
- 3Raison, sujet, motif.
- 4Cause d’une obligation, avantage moral ou matériel que se propose le·a contractant·e : dans le contrat à titre onéreux, l’équivalent de l’obligation de l’autre partie ; dans le contrat à titre gratuit, la bienfaisance.
- 5Sous-jacent, valeur d’un titre.
- 6Procès qui se plaide.
- 7Parti, intérêt.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acuse,casue,caues,ccause,cuase
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cause
Misspelling Variants of "cause"
Frequency rank: #332 in French
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Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: