CSS
\se ɛ.s‿ɛs\
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
- Crawford
Crawford
81,300 corpus weight
- criait
criait
81,299 corpus weight
- croque
croque
81,298 corpus weight
- cruciale
cruciale
81,297 corpus weight
- CSS
CSS
81,296 corpus weight
- dansant
dansant
81,293 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.
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 | CSS |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se ɛ.s‿ɛs\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,705 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CSS »
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
- 1Séquence d’instructions de rendu visuel, auditif ou tactile d’une ressource HTML ou XML.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how CSS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
Par exemple, une web font embarquée dans la CSS va alourdir de manière conséquente cette dernière.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).