Which to use
“casquette” and “coquette” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #10,288
- “casquette” frequency rank
- #26,679
- “coquette” frequency rank
- 36967
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | casquette | coquette |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Couvre-chef traditionnellement d’homme, fait d’étoffe ou de peau, qui a ordinairement une visière sur le devant. | Femme qui use de coquetterie. |
Where the eye mixes casquette and coquette
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. casquette runs 9 letters (CVCCVVCCV) against coquette's 8 (CVCVVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between casquette and coquette
A purely visual mix-up. casquette (\kas.kɛt\) and coquette (\kɔ.kɛt\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36967, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
casquette is recorded at frequency rank #10,288, classified as anoun, pronounced \kas.kɛt\. coquette is at rank #26,679, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kɔ.kɛt\.
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 36967, this pair ranks #265,827 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of casquette vs coquette
Shared letters: ceqtu. Private to "casquette": as. Private to "coquette": o.
"casquette" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVVCCV · "coquette" · 8 letters · shape CVCVVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "casquette" and "coquette" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "casquette" or "coquette" show up more?
What to do next
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "casquette" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "coquette" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #265,827 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "casquette" and "coquette" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "coquette vs Cosette". 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 #265,827 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.