CDS
\se.de.ɛs\
The verdict
“CDS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,477) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,477
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Séquence codante, région d'une séquence d'ADN codant une séquence d'acides aminés de protéine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cds · CDS · French
CDS · rank #28,477 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,477
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cast
Nearest frequency peer: cast (-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 « CDS »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Carmel
Carmel
71,527 corpus weight
- carnivores
carnivores
71,526 corpus weight
- cast
cast
71,525 corpus weight
- CDS
CDS
71,524 corpus weight
- Charlevoix
Charlevoix
71,522 corpus weight
- charrue
charrue
71,521 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « CDS » 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 | CDS |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.de.ɛs\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #28,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CDS »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CDS is neighbouring look-alikes ("ce", "ci", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \se.de.ɛs\. Frequency #28,477 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Séquence codante, région d'une séquence d'ADN codant une séquence d'acides aminés de protéine.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for CDS, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ce", "ci", "co", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is CDS, spelled C-D-S.
Definition
- 1Séquence codante, région d'une séquence d'ADN codant une séquence d'acides aminés de protéine.
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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