Which to use
“cafés” and “casus” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #9,443
- “cafés” frequency rank
- #48,398
- “casus” frequency rank
- 57841
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | cafés | casus |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pluriel de café. | Chute. |
Letter map: cafés vs casus
Shared letters muted; letters that set cafés and casus apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. cafés and casus follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Pair insight - cafés / casus
cafés and casus are indexed as a confusable French pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57841, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
cafés is recorded at frequency rank #9,443, classified as anoun, pronounced \ka.fe\. casus is at rank #48,398, tagged as anoun.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 57841, this pair ranks #112,612 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of cafés vs casus
Shared letters: acs. Private to "cafés": fé. Private to "casus": u.
"cafés" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "casus" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- casus ← acsus · cassu · cassus · casuss · causs · ccasus · csaus
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "cafés" and "casus" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "cafés" or "casus" show up more?
What to do next
Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "cafés" and "casus".
- Full dictionary entry for "cafés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "casus" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #112,612 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "cafés" and "casus" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cakes vs casus". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #112,612 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.