CGI

\se.ʒe.i\

/\se.ʒe.i\/ noun

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The verdict

“CGI” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,892) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#24,892
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Protocole de communication utilisé par des serveurs HTTP, et qui permet l’exécution de pages web en en retournant les contenus générés, comme s’il s’agissait de ceux de fichiers.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cgi · CGI · French

CGI · rank #24,892 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #24,892
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH caro

Nearest frequency peer: caro (-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 « CGI »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « CGI » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

CGI vs ci
0% similar
CGI vs co
0% similar
CGI vs Cm
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for CGI
PropertyValue
HeadwordCGI
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\se.ʒe.i\
Letters3
Frequency rank#24,892
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CGI »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).CGIse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « caro » (#24,891), « chalets » (#24,893), « chandler » (#24,894). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « CGI » est au #24,892. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for CGI is neighbouring look-alikes ("ci", "co", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \se.ʒe.i\. Frequency #24,892 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Protocole de communication utilisé par des serveurs HTTP, et qui permet l’exécution de pages web en en retournant les contenus générés, comme s’il s’agissait de ceux de fichiers.".

Zero misspellings are on record for CGI in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ci", "co", "Cm", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is CGI, spelled C-G-I.

Definition

  1. 1
    Protocole de communication utilisé par des serveurs HTTP, et qui permet l’exécution de pages web en en retournant les contenus générés, comme s’il s’agissait de ceux de fichiers.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how CGI appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Si CGI permet effectivement de générer des pages dynamiques et a été pendant des années le fondement du Web dynamique, il souffre de plusieurs problèmes dont le principal est une inefficacité liée à son principe même : chaque requête déclenche s’exécution d'une commande au niveau de l’OS, et donc le lancement d'un processus.

This word in other languages

CGI(English)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "CGI"?
"CGI" is spelled C-G-I. The IPA pronunciation is \se.ʒe.i\.
What does "CGI" mean?
As a noun, "CGI" means: Protocole de communication utilisé par des serveurs HTTP, et qui permet l’exécution de pages web en en retournant les contenus générés, comme s’il s’agissait de ceux de fichiers.
What words are commonly confused with "CGI"?
"CGI" is commonly confused with "ci", "co", "Cm". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "CGI"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "CGI" is \se.ʒe.i\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "CGI" come from?
"CGI" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "CGI", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

arf#24,862aha#24,847ada#24,840woo#24,815

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list