causons
\ko.zɔ̃\
The verdict
“causons” is uncommon French (frequency #89,509 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,509
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe causer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-causons · causons · French
causons · rank #89,509 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,509
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH celleux
Nearest frequency peer: celleux (+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 « causons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cauchemarde…
cauchemardesques
10,495 corpus weight
- caudron
caudron
10,494 corpus weight
- causons
causons
10,492 corpus weight
- celleux
celleux
10,491 corpus weight
- Celsa
Celsa
10,490 corpus weight
- certa
certa
10,489 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « causons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | causons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ko.zɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,509 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « causons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
causons is uncommon French at frequency #89,509 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ko.zɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
causons doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is causons, spelled C-A-U-S-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe causer.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif du verbe causer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how causons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous causons, nous rions, ce journaliste, bibliophobe à jeun, veut, quand il est ivre, que je donne à ma langue la sotte allure d’un livre (il feignit de pleurer).
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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