CDD
\se.de.de\
The verdict
“CDD” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,538) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,538
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contrat à durée déterminée, type de contrat de travail en France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cdd · CDD · French
CDD · rank #11,538 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,538
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH casques
Nearest frequency peer: casques (-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 « CDD »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- casa
casa
88,466 corpus weight
- Casablanca
Casablanca
88,465 corpus weight
- casques
casques
88,464 corpus weight
- CDD
CDD
88,463 corpus weight
- chemises
chemises
88,462 corpus weight
- choux
choux
88,461 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « CDD » 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 | CDD |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.de.de\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #11,538 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CDD »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CDD is neighbouring look-alikes ("ce", "ci", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \se.de.de\. Frequency #11,538 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Contrat à durée déterminée, type de contrat de travail en France.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for CDD in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is CDD, spelled C-D-D.
Definition
- 1Contrat à durée déterminée, type de contrat de travail en France.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how CDD appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chaque village du club étant une société à part, (avec nᵒ de Siret, etc.) le nombre de CDD est ainsi illimité. Entre deux saisons, les GO peuvent s'inscrire aux Assedic.
Cette plainte n’aura pas de suite mais je resterai en arrêt-maladie jusqu’à la fin de mon CDD.
Antonyms
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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