Ct
\kɔ̃.bo\
The verdict
“Ct” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,461) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,461
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - « Combault » dans Pontault-Combault.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ct · Ct · French
Ct · rank #9,461 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,461
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coûteux
Nearest frequency peer: coûteux (-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 « Ct »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- couloirs
couloirs
90,543 corpus weight
- couru
couru
90,542 corpus weight
- coûteux
coûteux
90,541 corpus weight
- Ct
Ct
90,540 corpus weight
- cuisse
cuisse
90,539 corpus weight
- célébrité
célébrité
90,537 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Ct » 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 | Ct |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.bo\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #9,461 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Ct »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ct is neighbouring look-alikes ("CV", "cy", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \kɔ̃.bo\. Frequency #9,461 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "« Combault » dans Pontault-Combault.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Ct in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "cy", "CX", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Ct, spelled C-T.
Definition
- 1« Combault » dans Pontault-Combault.
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.