cdr
\ku.dœʁ\
The verdict
“cdr” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,697) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,697
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - La seconde partie du doublet en LISP, qui pointe le reste d’une liste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cdr · cdr · French
cdr · rank #39,697 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,697
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH causerait
Nearest frequency peer: causerait (-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 « cdr »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- cataracte
cataracte
60,307 corpus weight
- causait
causait
60,306 corpus weight
- causerait
causerait
60,305 corpus weight
- cdr
cdr
60,304 corpus weight
- cens
cens
60,303 corpus weight
- chakra
chakra
60,302 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « cdr » 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 | cdr |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « cdr »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cdr is neighbouring look-alikes ("ce", "ci", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ku.dœʁ\. Frequency #39,697 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "La seconde partie du doublet en LISP, qui pointe le reste d’une liste.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cdr, 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cdr, spelled C-D-R.
Definition
- 1La seconde partie du doublet en LISP, qui pointe le reste d’une liste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cdr appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] principe de base : — chaque élément de la liste est représenté dans un doublet ; — le car du doublet contient l’élément lui-même ; — le cdr du doublet pointe sur le doublet suivant dans la liste ; — le cdr du dernier doublet signale la fin de la liste par le marqueur de fin de liste, '().
Antonyms
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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