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“casseurs” and “cassure” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#19,472
“casseurs” frequency rank
#34,457
“cassure” frequency rank
53929
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature casseurs cassure
Definition Pluriel de casseur. Endroit où un objet est cassé.

Where the eye mixes casseurs and cassure

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. casseurs runs 8 letters (CVCCVVCC) against cassure's 7 (CVCCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
casseurs
7 ch
cassure

Look-alike desk: casseurs vs cassure

A purely visual mix-up. casseurs (\ka.sœʁ\) and cassure (\kɑ.syʁ\) 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 53929, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

casseurs is recorded at frequency rank #19,472, classified as anoun, pronounced \ka.sœʁ\. cassure is at rank #34,457, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kɑ.syʁ\.

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 53929, this pair ranks #137,490 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of casseurs vs cassure

Shared letters: acersu. Private to "casseurs": -. Private to "cassure": -.

"casseurs" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVVCC  ·  "cassure" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • casseurs ← acsseurs · casesurs · caseurs · casserus · casseurrs · casseurss · casseusr · cassuers
  • cassure ← acssure · cassrue · cassuer · cassurre · casure · casusre · ccassure · csasure

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "casseurs" for "cassure" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ka.sœʁ\ versus \kɑ.syʁ\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "casseurs" or "cassure"?
"casseurs" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #19,472 in our French list, against #34,457 for "cassure". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "casseurs" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "cassure" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #137,490 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "casseurs" and "cassure" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "casseur vs cassure". 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 #137,490 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