CDI
\se.de.i\
The verdict
“CDI” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,686) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,686
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contrat à durée indéterminée, type de contrat de travail en France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cdi · CDI · French
CDI · rank #6,686 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,686
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH bourg
Nearest frequency peer: bourg (-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 « CDI »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Blues
Blues
93,318 corpus weight
- bonhomme
bonhomme
93,317 corpus weight
- bourg
bourg
93,316 corpus weight
- CDI
CDI
93,315 corpus weight
- CGT
CGT
93,314 corpus weight
- charmant
charmant
93,313 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « CDI » 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 | CDI |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.de.i\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CDI »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CDI is neighbouring look-alikes ("ce", "ci", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \se.de.i\. Frequency #6,686 among 8,609 “C” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for CDI, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 CDI, spelled C-D-I.
Definition
- 1Contrat à durée indéterminée, type de contrat de travail en France.
- 2Bibliothèque d'un collège et d'un lycée français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how CDI appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si le CDI est encore plébiscité pour souscrire un contrat immobilier, « la majorité des jeunes ne peuvent plus acheter, déplore Yadi. Alors quel intérêt ? ».
En y arrivant, j’avais découvert la règle : on pouvait faire deux cents jours de travail annuel, ensuite on dégageait, sinon la boîte risquait les prud’hommes et la requalification des CDD en CDI.
Synonyms
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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