CSG
\se ɛs ʒe\
The verdict
“CSG” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,401) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,401
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prélèvement obligatoire proportionnel affecté au financement de la sécurité sociale, considéré par certains comme un impôt et par d’autres comme à la fois un impôt et une cotisation sociale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-csg · CSG · French
CSG · rank #17,401 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,401
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crucifix
Nearest frequency peer: crucifix (-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 « CSG »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- couchée
couchée
82,603 corpus weight
- critiquée
critiquée
82,602 corpus weight
- crucifix
crucifix
82,601 corpus weight
- CSG
CSG
82,600 corpus weight
- côtière
côtière
82,599 corpus weight
- dauphine
dauphine
82,598 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « CSG » 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 | CSG |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se ɛs ʒe\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,401 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CSG »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CSG is neighbouring look-alikes ("CV", "Ct", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \se ɛs ʒe\. Frequency #17,401 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Prélèvement obligatoire proportionnel affecté au financement de la sécurité sociale, considéré par certains comme un impôt et par d’autres comme à la fois un impôt et une cotisation sociale.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for CSG in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is CSG, spelled C-S-G.
Definition
- 1Prélèvement obligatoire proportionnel affecté au financement de la sécurité sociale, considéré par certains comme un impôt et par d’autres comme à la fois un impôt et une cotisation sociale.
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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