causette
\ko.zɛt\
The verdict
“causette” is uncommon French (frequency #53,193 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,193
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite causerie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-causette · causette · French
causette · rank #53,193 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,193
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Catwoman
Nearest frequency peer: Catwoman (-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 « causette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cashback
cashback
46,812 corpus weight
- Caspar
Caspar
46,810 corpus weight
- Catwoman
Catwoman
46,809 corpus weight
- causette
causette
46,808 corpus weight
- Chandeleur
Chandeleur
46,806 corpus weight
- chapon
chapon
46,805 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « causette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | causette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ko.zɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,193 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « causette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
causette is uncommon French at frequency #53,193 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ko.zɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for causette, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is causette, spelled C-A-U-S-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petite causerie.
- 2Communication informelle entre plusieurs personnes sur l'internet, par échange de messages affichés sur leurs écrans.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how causette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais Fromentel feignit de regarder ailleurs. Au coucher, il témoigna pareille indulgence, tolérant les causettes longtemps après l’extinction des feux.
Personne ne m'attendait, ni femme, ni fille pour un brin de causette ou d'inconduite, comme on voudra.
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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