casavscasusTell them apart

Quick tell: casa is a verb, casus is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“casa” is a verb and “casus” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#11,535
“casa” frequency rank
#48,398
“casus” frequency rank
59933
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature casa casus
Definition Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de caser. Chute.

Letter map: casa vs casus

Shared letters muted; letters that set casa and casus apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch
casa
5 ch
casus

Grammar separator: casa vs casus

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: casa is averb and casusanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59933, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

casa is recorded at frequency rank #11,535, classified as averb, pronounced \ka.za\. 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 59933, this pair ranks #100,379 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of casa vs casus

Shared letters: acs. Private to "casa": -. Private to "casus": u.

"casa" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "casus" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • casaacsa · caas · cassa · ccasa · csaa
  • casusacsus · cassu · cassus · casuss · causs · ccasus · csaus

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "casa" for "casus" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "casa" is a verb and "casus" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "casa" vs "casus" - which ranks higher?
"casa" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,535 in our French list, against #48,398 for "casus". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "casa" and "casus". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "casa" 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 #100,379 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "casa" 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 #100,379 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list