CNES
\knɛs\
The verdict
“CNES” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,938. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,938
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sigle du Centre national d’études spatiales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cnes · CNES · French
CNES · rank #34,938 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,938
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CMU
Nearest frequency peer: CMU (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « CNES »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chronomètre
chronomètre
65,066 corpus weight
- circulations
circulations
65,065 corpus weight
- CMU
CMU
65,064 corpus weight
- CNES
CNES
65,063 corpus weight
- Cochin
Cochin
65,062 corpus weight
- collimateur
collimateur
65,061 corpus weight
What this shows « CNES » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | CNES |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \knɛs\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #34,938 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « CNES »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around CNES (IPA \knɛs\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #34,938 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sigle du Centre national d’études spatiales.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for CNES, with forms such as "ccnes", "cness", and "cnnes". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Cs", "CRS", "CPE", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is CNES, spelled C-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Sigle du Centre national d’études spatiales.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccnes
- cness
- cnnes
- cnse
- nces
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of CNES - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "CNES", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).