CBD
\se.be.de\
The verdict
“CBD” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,663) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,663
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation de cannabidiol.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cbd · CBD · French
CBD · rank #40,663 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,663
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cautionnement
Nearest frequency peer: cautionnement (-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 « CBD »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- catégorisat…
catégorisation
59,341 corpus weight
- Caumont
Caumont
59,340 corpus weight
- cautionneme…
cautionnement
59,339 corpus weight
- CBD
CBD
59,338 corpus weight
- centaure
centaure
59,337 corpus weight
- chatouiller
chatouiller
59,335 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « CBD » 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 | CBD |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.be.de\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,663 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CBD »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CBD is neighbouring look-alikes ("ce", "ci", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \se.be.de\. Frequency #40,663 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Abréviation de cannabidiol.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for CBD, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is CBD, spelled C-B-D.
Definition
- 1Abréviation de cannabidiol.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how CBD appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le CBD fait partie des nombreux (autour de deux cents, selon l’Organisation mondiale de la santé) cannabinoïdes présents dans le chanvre, aussi appelé « cannabis ».
Les récepteurs de notre cerveau auxquelles se lient le THC et le CBD, les « cannabinoïdes de type CB₁ », sont également situés dans les régions du circuit de la douleur.
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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