casséesvscasserConfusable pair

Quick tell: cassées is a adjective, casser is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“cassées” is an adjective and “casser” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#23,475
“cassées” frequency rank
#3,388
“casser” frequency rank
26863
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cassées casser
Definition Féminin pluriel de cassé. Briser ; rompre.

Same sound, different letters: cassées vs casser

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. cassées runs 7 letters (CVCCVVC) against casser's 6 (CVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
cassées
6 ch
casser

Homophone desk: cassées vs casser

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: cassées and casser carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ka.se\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26863, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cassées is recorded at frequency rank #23,475, classified as anadj, pronounced \ka.se\. casser is at rank #3,388, tagged as averb, pronounced \ka.se\.

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 26863, this pair ranks #332,375 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of cassées vs casser

Shared letters: aces. Private to "cassées": é. Private to "casser": r.

"cassées" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC  ·  "casser" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • casser ← acsser · casesr · casserr · cassre · ccasser · csaser

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "cassées" and "casser" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "cassées" is an adjective and "casser" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "cassées" or "casser" show up more?
"casser" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,388 in our French list, against #23,475 for "cassées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've separated the homophone pair "cassées" / "casser". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "cassées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "casser" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #332,375 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cassées" and "casser" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cassées vs chassées". 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 #332,375 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