CDN
\se.de.ɛn\
The verdict
“CDN” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,331) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,331
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réseau de diffusion de contenu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cdn · CDN · French
CDN · rank #43,331 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,331
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cava
Nearest frequency peer: cava (-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 « CDN »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- catapulte
catapulte
56,673 corpus weight
- caton
caton
56,672 corpus weight
- cava
cava
56,671 corpus weight
- CDN
CDN
56,670 corpus weight
- cerne
cerne
56,669 corpus weight
- Cervantes
Cervantes
56,668 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « CDN » 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 | CDN |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.de.ɛn\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CDN »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CDN is neighbouring look-alikes ("ce", "ci", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \se.de.ɛn\. Frequency #43,331 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Réseau de diffusion de contenu.".
CDN doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 CDN, spelled C-D-N.
Definition
- 1Réseau de diffusion de contenu.
This word in other languages
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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