Cazaux

name

The verdict

“Cazaux” is uncommon French (frequency #67,365 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#67,365
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cazaux · Cazaux · French

Cazaux · rank #67,365 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #67,365
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cauchemard

Nearest frequency peer: cauchemard (-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 « Cazaux »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cazaux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Cazaux
PropertyValue
HeadwordCazaux
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#67,365
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Cazaux » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Cazauxtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « cauchemard » (#67,364), « cera » (#67,366), « cato » (#67,363). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « Cazaux » est au #67,365. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Cazaux is uncommon French at frequency #67,365 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Cazaux doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Cazaux, spelled C-A-Z-A-U-X.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Cazaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le Français Arthur Cazaux, tombeur d’Holger Rune (nᵒ 8 mondial) au 2ᵉ tour de l’Open d'Australie (7-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3), a validé le bon début de quinzaine du tennis français en Australie.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Cazaux"?
"Cazaux" is spelled C-A-Z-A-U-X.
What does "Cazaux" mean?
As a proper noun, "Cazaux" means: Nom de famille.
What language does "Cazaux" come from?
"Cazaux" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Cazaux", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list