csc
\se.ɛs.se\
The verdict
“csc” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,392) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,392
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - But contre son camp.
Corpus desk
Index FR-csc · csc · French
csc · rank #27,392 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,392
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cruche
Nearest frequency peer: cruche (-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 « csc »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- coutumier
coutumier
72,612 corpus weight
- crible
crible
72,611 corpus weight
- cruche
cruche
72,610 corpus weight
- csc
csc
72,609 corpus weight
- cutanées
cutanées
72,607 corpus weight
- cy
cy
72,606 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « csc » 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 | csc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.ɛs.se\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,392 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « csc »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for csc is neighbouring look-alikes ("CV", "Ct", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \se.ɛs.se\. Frequency #27,392 among 8,609 “C” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for csc, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "Ct", "cy", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is csc, spelled C-S-C.
Definition
- 1But contre son camp.
- 2Parole qui se retourne contre celui qui l'a prononcée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how csc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Barça ouvre le score sur un csc de Militão.
D2 américaine: un arbitre annule un csc sans aucune raison valable
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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