CSS

\se ɛ.s‿ɛs\

/\se ɛ.s‿ɛs\/ noun

The verdict

“CSS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,705) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#18,705
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Séquence d’instructions de rendu visuel, auditif ou tactile d’une ressource HTML ou XML.

Corpus desk

Index FR-css · CSS · French

CSS · rank #18,705 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,705
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-0 0 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cruciale

Nearest frequency peer: cruciale (-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 « CSS »

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

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « CSS » 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).

CSS vs CV
33% similar
CSS vs Ct
33% similar
CSS vs cy
0% similar

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

Key facts for CSS
PropertyValue
HeadwordCSS
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\se ɛ.s‿ɛs\
Letters3
Frequency rank#18,705
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CSS »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).CSSse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « cruciale » (#18,704), « croque » (#18,703), « criait » (#18,702). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « CSS » est au #18,705. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for CSS is neighbouring look-alikes ("CV", "Ct", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \se ɛ.s‿ɛs\. Frequency #18,705 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Séquence d’instructions de rendu visuel, auditif ou tactile d’une ressource HTML ou XML.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for CSS, 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is CSS, spelled C-S-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Séquence d’instructions de rendu visuel, auditif ou tactile d’une ressource HTML ou XML.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Dans certains cas extrêmes de recherche de performance, il est même conseillé de mettre le CSS directement en embarqué dans la page (ou du moins la partie critique pour accélérer la sensation de vitesse d’affichage de la page), c’est dire à quel point cette partie est critique.
  2. Par exemple, une web font embarquée dans la CSS va alourdir de manière conséquente cette dernière.

Synonyms

feuilles de style en cascade

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "CSS"?
"CSS" is spelled C-S-S. The IPA pronunciation is \se ɛ.s‿ɛs\.
What does "CSS" mean?
As a noun, "CSS" means: Séquence d’instructions de rendu visuel, auditif ou tactile d’une ressource HTML ou XML.
What words are commonly confused with "CSS"?
"CSS" is commonly confused with "CV", "Ct", "cy". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "CSS"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "CSS" is \se ɛ.s‿ɛs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "CSS" come from?
"CSS" 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 "CSS", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list