FCC
The verdict
“FCC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,761) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,761
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fédération canadienne des contribuables.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fcc · FCC · French
FCC · rank #40,761 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,761
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fatiguées
Nearest frequency peer: fatiguées (-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 « FCC »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- fachosphère
fachosphère
59,243 corpus weight
- fatiguées
fatiguées
59,241 corpus weight
- FCC
FCC
59,240 corpus weight
- female
female
59,238 corpus weight
- filaire
filaire
59,237 corpus weight
- fiori
fiori
59,236 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « FCC » 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 | FCC |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « FCC »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for FCC is neighbouring look-alikes ("FN", "fo", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #40,761 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Fédération canadienne des contribuables.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for FCC, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FN", "fo", "fm", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is FCC, spelled F-C-C.
Definition
- 1Fédération canadienne des contribuables.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how FCC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«On comprend maintenant pourquoi Bronfman préférait négocier derrière des portes closes: son projet ne tient pas la route», indique dans un communiqué le Directeur Québec de la FCC, Renaud Brossard.
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).