causer
\ko.ze\
The verdict
“causer” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,377. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,377
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être cause de ; occasionner, provoquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-causer · causer · French
causer · rank #6,377 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,377
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH bye
Nearest frequency peer: bye (-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 « causer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bombes
bombes
93,627 corpus weight
- Brest
Brest
93,626 corpus weight
- bye
bye
93,625 corpus weight
- causer
causer
93,624 corpus weight
- championne
championne
93,623 corpus weight
- charité
charité
93,622 corpus weight
What this shows « causer » 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 | causer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ko.ze\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,377 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « causer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around causer (IPA \ko.ze\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,377 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Être cause de ; occasionner, provoquer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for causer, with forms such as "acuser", "casuer", and "cauesr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "couper", "cesser", "couler", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is causer, spelled C-A-U-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Être cause de ; occasionner, provoquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how causer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On doit, sans perdre un instant, extirper la tumeur : opération qui exige la main d'un anatomiste, et qui. n'est pas sans danger pour celui qui la pratique, l'inoculation de l'ichor gangreneux pouvant causer la mort.
Il entendit le bruit de ferraille causé par les clefs que Manon prenait dans un tiroir, et il lui vit allumer la chandelle d’un grand martinet en cuivre jaune.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acuser
- casuer
- cauesr
- causerr
- causre
- causser
- ccauser
- cuaser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of causer - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).