CAF
\kaf\
The verdict
“CAF” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,286) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,286
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caisse d’allocations familiales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caf · CAF · French
CAF · rank #10,286 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,286
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH bénéfique
Nearest frequency peer: bénéfique (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « CAF »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- BTS
BTS
89,718 corpus weight
- bâtard
bâtard
89,717 corpus weight
- bénéfique
bénéfique
89,716 corpus weight
- CAF
CAF
89,715 corpus weight
- Carla
Carla
89,714 corpus weight
- casquette
casquette
89,713 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « CAF » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | CAF |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaf\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,286 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CAF »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CAF is neighbouring look-alikes ("ce", "ci", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \kaf\. Frequency #10,286 among 8,609 “C” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for CAF, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ce", "ci", "co", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is CAF, spelled C-A-F.
Definition
- 1Caisse d’allocations familiales.
- 2Capacité d’autofinancement.
- 3Francisation de CIF, terme utilisé en commerce international pour définir les conditions d’expédition : Coût avec assurance et fret.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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