casasvscasusTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#41,694
“casas” frequency rank
#48,398
“casus” frequency rank
90092
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature casas casus
Definition Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe caser. Chute.

Letter map: casas vs casus

Shared letters muted; letters that set casas and casus apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. casas and casus follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
casas
5 ch
casus

Part-of-speech tell for casas / casus

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: casas is averb and casusanoun. On the page they differ by a single letter - a in “casas” becomes u in “casus”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 90092, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

casas is recorded at frequency rank #41,694, 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 90092, this pair ranks #5,162 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of casas vs casus

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

"casas" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "casus" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • casas ← acsas · caass · casass · cassas · ccasas · csaas
  • casus ← acsus · cassu · cassus · casuss · causs · ccasus · csaus

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "casas" and "casus" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "casas" is a verb and "casus" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "casas" vs "casus" - which ranks higher?
"casas" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #41,694 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.

What to do next

Pair "casas" vs "casus" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "casas" 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 #5,162 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "casas" 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 #5,162 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