CPAS

noun

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The verdict

“CPAS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,198) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#33,198
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Centre chargé de l’action sociale dans une commune.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cpas · CPAS · French

CPAS · rank #33,198 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #33,198
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH coupait

Nearest frequency peer: coupait (-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 « CPAS »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « CPAS » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

CPAS vs Cs
25% similar
CPAS vs CRS
50% similar
CPAS vs CSA
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for CPAS
PropertyValue
HeadwordCPAS
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#33,198
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CPAS »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).CPASse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « coupait » (#33,197), « creusées » (#33,199), « critiqués » (#33,200). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « CPAS » est au #33,198. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for CPAS is neighbouring look-alikes ("Cs", "CRS", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #33,198 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Centre chargé de l’action sociale dans une commune.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for CPAS, with forms such as "ccpas", "cpass", and "cppas". 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", "CSA", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 CPAS, spelled C-P-A-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Centre chargé de l’action sociale dans une commune.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how CPAS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les étrangers exclus de ces prestations peuvent, en cas de besoin, bénéficier de l’aide des centres publics d’aide sociale (CPAS).

Synonyms

CCAS

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccpas
  • cpass
  • cppas
  • cpsa

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of CPAS - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ccpas1cpass1cppas1cpsa2
Edit distance from "CPAS"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "CPAS"?
"CPAS" is spelled C-P-A-S.
What does "CPAS" mean?
As a noun, "CPAS" means: Centre chargé de l’action sociale dans une commune.
What words are commonly confused with "CPAS"?
"CPAS" is commonly confused with "Cs", "CRS", "CSA". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "CPAS" come from?
"CPAS" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "CPAS", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

dome#33,217borg#33,149bock#33,145barr#33,138

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list