CSA
\se.ɛs.a\
The verdict
“CSA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,945) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,945
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Autorité administrative indépendante qui régule le secteur de la communication audiovisuelle en France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-csa · CSA · French
CSA · rank #12,945 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,945
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crucial
Nearest frequency peer: crucial (-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 « CSA »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- corrections
corrections
87,059 corpus weight
- craignent
craignent
87,058 corpus weight
- crucial
crucial
87,057 corpus weight
- CSA
CSA
87,056 corpus weight
- desquelles
desquelles
87,055 corpus weight
- diffusés
diffusés
87,054 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « CSA » 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 | CSA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \se.ɛs.a\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,945 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CSA »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CSA is neighbouring look-alikes ("CV", "Ct", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \se.ɛs.a\. Frequency #12,945 among 8,609 “C” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for CSA 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", "cy", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is CSA, spelled C-S-A.
Definition
- 1Autorité administrative indépendante qui régule le secteur de la communication audiovisuelle en France.
- 2Organisme chargé de réguler l’audiovisuel pour la Communauté française de Belgique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CSA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais il faut laisser le temps à la TNT de trouver ses marques, estime le CSA.
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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