CDG
The verdict
“CDG” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,794) as a symbol. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,794
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Code AITA de l’aéroport Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle dans le système de codification international des aéroports.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cdg · CDG · French
CDG · rank #23,794 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,794
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cambriolages
Nearest frequency peer: cambriolages (-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 « CDG »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- cadastre
cadastre
76,210 corpus weight
- cagoule
cagoule
76,209 corpus weight
- cambriolages
cambriolages
76,208 corpus weight
- CDG
CDG
76,207 corpus weight
- CDU
CDU
76,206 corpus weight
- celtes
celtes
76,205 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « CDG » 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 | CDG |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,794 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CDG »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CDG is neighbouring look-alikes ("ce", "ci", …), not just typos; it is asymbol. Frequency #23,794 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Code AITA de l’aéroport Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle dans le système de codification international des aéroports.".
CDG doesn't appear in our generated misspelling 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 CDG, spelled C-D-G.
Definition
- 1Code AITA de l’aéroport Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle dans le système de codification international des aéroports.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CDG appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand enfin ils étaient arrivés à l’aérogare, ils avaient encore dû prendre le CDGVAL qui les avait conduits au terminal de départ.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).