jouer les Cassandre
\ʒwe le ka.sɑ̃dʁ\
The verdict
“jouer les Cassandre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prédire des malheurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jouer-les-cassandre · jouer les Cassandre · French
jouer les Cassandre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 19 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "J" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jouer les Cassandre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒwe le ka.sɑ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
jouer les Cassandre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ʒwe le ka.sɑ̃dʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prédire des malheurs.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for jouer les Cassandre, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is jouer les Cassandre, spelled J-O-U-E-R- -L-E-S- -C-A-S-S-A-N-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Prédire des malheurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how jouer les Cassandre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On m’accusera de jouer les Cassandre, de n’être que l’un de ces « professeurs de désespoir » qui enseignent à ne voir dans le monde que ce qui s’y décompose. Laissons aux jovialistes, aux inconscients ou au indifférents le soin d’instruire cette accusation.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.