cet
\sɛt\
The verdict
“cet” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #174) as a determiner. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #174
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de ce devant une voyelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cet · cet · French
cet · rank #174 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #174
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH année
Nearest frequency peer: année (-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 « cet »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- petit
petit
99,830 corpus weight
- puis
puis
99,829 corpus weight
- année
année
99,828 corpus weight
- cet
cet
99,827 corpus weight
- ceux
ceux
99,826 corpus weight
- elles
elles
99,825 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « cet » 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 | cet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Determiner |
| IPA | \sɛt\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « cet »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cet is neighbouring look-alikes ("ci", "co", …), not just typos; it is adeterminer pronounced \sɛt\. Frequency #174 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Variante de ce devant une voyelle.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cet in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ci", "co", "Cm", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 cet, spelled C-E-T.
Definition
- 1Variante de ce devant une voyelle.
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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