CFA
\se ɛ.f‿a\
The verdict
“CFA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,615) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,615
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Colonies françaises d’Afrique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cfa · CFA · French
CFA · rank #9,615 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,615
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH bêtises
Nearest frequency peer: bêtises (-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 « CFA »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- bonté
bonté
90,389 corpus weight
- bouchon
bouchon
90,388 corpus weight
- bêtises
bêtises
90,387 corpus weight
- CFA
CFA
90,386 corpus weight
- chinoises
chinoises
90,385 corpus weight
- cire
cire
90,384 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « CFA » 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 | CFA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se ɛ.f‿a\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,615 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CFA »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CFA is neighbouring look-alikes ("ci", "co", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \se ɛ.f‿a\. Frequency #9,615 among 8,609 “C” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for CFA in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is CFA, spelled C-F-A.
Definition
- 1Colonies françaises d’Afrique.
- 2Communauté française d’Afrique.
- 3Conduite avec facultés affaiblies (délit de conduite d'un véhicule sous l'effet d'une substance psychotrope)
- 4Abréviation de Centre de Formation d’Apprentis.
- 5Courant faible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how CFA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le franc CFA a une parité fixe avec l’euro et les pays de la zone franc.
Les centres de formation d’apprentis (CFA) donnent aux apprentis une formation générale et technique qui complète la formation reçue dans les entreprises.
Synonyms
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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