CGT
\se.ʒe.te\
The verdict
“CGT” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,687) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,687
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Centrale syndicale française créée en 1895.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cgt · CGT · French
CGT · rank #6,687 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,687
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CDI
Nearest frequency peer: CDI (-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 « CGT »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- bonhomme
bonhomme
93,317 corpus weight
- bourg
bourg
93,316 corpus weight
- CDI
CDI
93,315 corpus weight
- CGT
CGT
93,314 corpus weight
- charmant
charmant
93,313 corpus weight
- Chili
Chili
93,312 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « CGT » 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 | CGT |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \se.ʒe.te\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CGT »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CGT is neighbouring look-alikes ("ci", "co", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \se.ʒe.te\. Frequency #6,687 among 8,609 “C” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for CGT 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, 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 is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is CGT, spelled C-G-T.
Definition
- 1Centrale syndicale française créée en 1895.
- 2Compagnie générale transatlantique (entreprise de transport par bateaux).
- 3Organisation syndicale argentine créée en 1930 et devenue très puissante dès 1940.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how CGT appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette décision « met le feu aux poudres », selon Fabien Privé Saint-Lannes, secrétaire CGT de la raffinerie TotalEnergies de Donges, laquelle a décidé de rejoindre le mouvement national, qualifiant la décision du gouvernement d’« atteinte au droit de grève constitutionnel ».
C’est agaçant d’sentir que au fond les gens aiment pas la CGT.
Synonyms
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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