CNRC
The verdict
“CNRC” is uncommon French (frequency #86,553 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,553
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conseil national de recherche du Canada.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cnrc · CNRC · French
CNRC · rank #86,553 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,553
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cléricaux
Nearest frequency peer: cléricaux (-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 « CNRC »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clopinettes
clopinettes
13,452 corpus weight
- cloutés
cloutés
13,450 corpus weight
- cléricaux
cléricaux
13,449 corpus weight
- CNRC
CNRC
13,448 corpus weight
- combatte
combatte
13,446 corpus weight
- commenciez
commenciez
13,444 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « CNRC » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | CNRC |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #86,553 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « CNRC » en français
Rare enough to double-check
CNRC is uncommon French at frequency #86,553 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Conseil national de recherche du Canada.".
No misspelling variants are generated for CNRC in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is CNRC, spelled C-N-R-C.
Definition
- 1Conseil national de recherche du Canada.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CNRC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Notez cette curiosité : ce n’est ni le Centre canadien de vaccinologie ni le gouvernement Trudeau qui annoncent la mort de son projet, mais le CNRC.
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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