cpa
\tspa\
The verdict
“cpa” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,736) as a particle. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,736
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Neuf.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cpa · cpa · French
cpa · rank #38,736 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,736
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH couvreur
Nearest frequency peer: couvreur (-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 « cpa »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- costauds
costauds
61,269 corpus weight
- courre
courre
61,268 corpus weight
- cous
cous
61,267 corpus weight
- couvreur
couvreur
61,266 corpus weight
- cpa
cpa
61,265 corpus weight
- cresson
cresson
61,264 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « cpa » 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 | cpa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Particle |
| IPA | \tspa\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #38,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « cpa »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cpa is neighbouring look-alikes ("CV", "Ct", …), not just typos; it is aparticle pronounced \tspa\. Frequency #38,736 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Neuf.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cpa in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "Ct", "Cs", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cpa, spelled C-P-A.
Definition
- 1Neuf.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).