CDC
\se.de.se\
The verdict
“CDC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,664) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,664
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Communauté de communes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cdc · CDC · French
CDC · rank #20,664 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,664
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cerfs
Nearest frequency peer: cerfs (+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 « CDC »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- carcasse
carcasse
79,340 corpus weight
- carpe
carpe
79,339 corpus weight
- CDC
CDC
79,337 corpus weight
- cerfs
cerfs
79,336 corpus weight
- chenille
chenille
79,335 corpus weight
- Claudine
Claudine
79,334 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « CDC » 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 | CDC |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.de.se\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #20,664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CDC »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CDC is neighbouring look-alikes ("ce", "ci", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \se.de.se\. Frequency #20,664 among 8,609 “C” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
CDC doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is CDC, spelled C-D-C.
Definition
- 1Communauté de communes.
- 2(Finances Publiques) Caisse des dépôts et consignations.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CDC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après un bilan de Marie-Josée Villautreix, 4ᵉ vice-présidente de la Communauté de communes de l’île d’Oléron (CDC) en charge du développement durable et de la Régie Oléron déchets, des réactions se sont fait entendre sur la redevance incitative.
Synonyms
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "CDC", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).