CNAV
\knav\
The verdict
“CNAV” is uncommon French (frequency #78,278 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,278
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caisse nationale d’assurance vieillesse, organisme créé en 1967 pour gérer la retraite des salariés, à l’exception de ceux du secteur agricole et de la fonction publique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cnav · CNAV · French
CNAV · rank #78,278 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,278
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clouté
Nearest frequency peer: clouté (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « CNAV »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- closing
closing
21,726 corpus weight
- clothing
clothing
21,725 corpus weight
- clouté
clouté
21,724 corpus weight
- CNAV
CNAV
21,723 corpus weight
- cointreau
cointreau
21,722 corpus weight
- commencerai…
commenceraient
21,720 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « CNAV » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | CNAV |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \knav\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #78,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « CNAV » en français
Rare enough to double-check
CNAV is uncommon French at frequency #78,278 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \knav\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Caisse nationale d’assurance vieillesse, organisme créé en 1967 pour gérer la retraite des salariés, à l’exception de ceux du secteur agricole et de la fonction publique.".
Zero misspellings are on record for CNAV in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is CNAV, spelled C-N-A-V.
Definition
- 1Caisse nationale d’assurance vieillesse, organisme créé en 1967 pour gérer la retraite des salariés, à l’exception de ceux du secteur agricole et de la fonction publique.
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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