CSP
\se.ɛs.pe\
The verdict
“CSP” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,499) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,499
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Catégorie socioprofessionnelle (le concept), catégories socioprofessionnelles (la nomenclature de l’Insee).
Corpus desk
Index FR-csp · CSP · French
CSP · rank #19,499 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,499
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crédibles
Nearest frequency peer: crédibles (-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 « CSP »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- cratère
cratère
80,505 corpus weight
- créatifs
créatifs
80,504 corpus weight
- crédibles
crédibles
80,503 corpus weight
- CSP
CSP
80,502 corpus weight
- cum
cum
80,501 corpus weight
- célibat
célibat
80,500 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « CSP » 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 | CSP |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.ɛs.pe\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CSP »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CSP is neighbouring look-alikes ("CV", "Ct", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \se.ɛs.pe\. Frequency #19,499 among 8,609 “C” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for CSP, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is CSP, spelled C-S-P.
Definition
- 1Catégorie socioprofessionnelle (le concept), catégories socioprofessionnelles (la nomenclature de l’Insee).
- 2Mécanisme de sécurité permettant de restreindre l'origine du contenu dans une page web à certains sites, pour éviter le XSS.
- 3Coopération structurée permanente.
This word in other languages
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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