cts
\ka.ʁa\
The verdict
“cts” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,736) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,736
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Carats
Corpus desk
Index FR-cts · cts · French
cts · rank #39,736 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,736
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CSM
Nearest frequency peer: CSM (-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 « cts »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- croft
croft
60,268 corpus weight
- croisons
croisons
60,267 corpus weight
- CSM
CSM
60,266 corpus weight
- cts
cts
60,265 corpus weight
- Cérès
Cérès
60,263 corpus weight
- daigne
daigne
60,262 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « cts » 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 | cts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « cts »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cts is neighbouring look-alikes ("CV", "cy", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ka.ʁa\. Frequency #39,736 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Carats".
cts has no tracked misspelling variants, 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cts, spelled C-T-S.
Definition
- 1Carats
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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