CB
\se.be\
The verdict
“CB” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,731) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,731
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Carte bleue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cb · CB · French
CB · rank #11,731 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,731
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH castro
Nearest frequency peer: castro (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “CB”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- cartier
cartier
88,272 corpus weight
- castro
castro
88,271 corpus weight
- CB
CB
88,270 corpus weight
- cochons
cochons
88,269 corpus weight
- coffret
coffret
88,268 corpus weight
- cola
cola
88,267 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “CB” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | CB |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.be\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #11,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “CB” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CB is neighbouring look-alikes ("ce", "ci", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \se.be\. Frequency #11,731 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Carte bleue.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for CB, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ce", "ci", "co", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 CB, spelled C-B.
Definition
- 1Carte bleue.
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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- "CB" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "ce". View pair
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.