causse
\kos\
The verdict
“causse” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,174) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,174
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné dans le Massif Central à de hauts plateaux calcaires nus et arides.
Corpus desk
Index FR-causse · causse · French
causse · rank #41,174 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,174
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH celtics
Nearest frequency peer: celtics (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « causse »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- caricaturale
caricaturale
58,830 corpus weight
- carlin
carlin
58,829 corpus weight
- causse
causse
58,827 corpus weight
- celtics
celtics
58,826 corpus weight
- Chadwick
Chadwick
58,825 corpus weight
- chaman
chaman
58,824 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « causse » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | causse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kos\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #41,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « causse »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for causse is neighbouring look-alikes ("cesse", "Cissé", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \kos\. Frequency #41,174 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Nom donné dans le Massif Central à de hauts plateaux calcaires nus et arides.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for causse, with forms such as "acusse", "casuse", and "ccausse". 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, "cesse", "Cissé", "cosse", 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 explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is causse, spelled C-A-U-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Nom donné dans le Massif Central à de hauts plateaux calcaires nus et arides.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how causse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après avoir quitté l’Auvergne, nous étions descendus dans les causses du Quercy. On appelle ainsi de grandes plaines inégalement ondulées, où l’on ne rencontre guère que des terrains incultes et de maigres taillis. Aucun pays n’est plus triste, plus pauvre. Et ce qui accentue encore cette impression que le voyageur reçoit en le traversant, c’est que presq…
La pauvreté ? Un tiers environ du département est formé de ces causses dénudés, de ces plateaux calcaires hauts, ici de 500 à 1000 mètres […]
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acusse
- casuse
- ccausse
- cuasse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of causse - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).