CACHE/CACHET A cache is a place for hiding one’s valuables or a collection of things so hidden. As a verb, then, to cache means to hide. One might, I suppose, cache one’s cache of cash in an underground cache. Cachet is the quality of prestige and distinction, as Edith Wharton’s avaricious, ambitious Undine Spragg, in The Custom of the Country, marries for social cachet. And for cash. Though the pronunciation of words, as opposed to their spelling and use, is, as I’ve mentioned, outside my bailiwick, I’m happy to point out that “cache” is pronounced exactly like “cash,” whereas “cachet” has
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