CCAS

noun

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The verdict

“CCAS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,777) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#47,777
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
2
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En France, centre chargé de l’action sociale dans une commune.

Corpus desk

Index FR-ccas · CCAS · French

CCAS · rank #47,777 · 2 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #47,777
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 2 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cathodique

Nearest frequency peer: cathodique (-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 « CCAS »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « CCAS » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

CCAS vs Cs
25% similar
CCAS vs ces
0% similar
CCAS vs cia
0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for CCAS
PropertyValue
HeadwordCCAS
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#47,777
Misspellings tracked2
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CCAS »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).CCASse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « cathodique » (#47,776), « celi » (#47,778), « castillan » (#47,775). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « CCAS » est au #47,777. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for CCAS is neighbouring look-alikes ("Cs", "ces", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #47,777 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "En France, centre chargé de l’action sociale dans une commune.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 2 likely wrong-spelling variants for CCAS, including "cacs" and "ccsa". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Cs", "ces", "cia", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented 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 CCAS, spelled C-C-A-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    En France, centre chargé de l’action sociale dans une commune.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how CCAS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Par ailleurs, « l’agente du CCAS (Centre communal d’action sociale, NDLR) pour prendre de leurs nouvelles ».

Synonyms

CPASbureau d’aide socialebureau de bienfaisance

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cacs
  • ccsa

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of CCAS - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

cacs2ccsa2
Edit distance from "CCAS"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "CCAS"?
"CCAS" is spelled C-C-A-S.
What does "CCAS" mean?
As a noun, "CCAS" means: En France, centre chargé de l’action sociale dans une commune.
What words are commonly confused with "CCAS"?
"CCAS" is commonly confused with "Cs", "ces", "cia". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "CCAS" come from?
"CCAS" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "CCAS", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

celi#47,778chah#47,782bane#47,740atos#47,734

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list