ICC
\i.se.se\
The verdict
“ICC” is uncommon French (frequency #50,278 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,278
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Investigateur en cybercriminalité ; désigne un enquêteur de la Police nationale spécialisé dans les nouvelles technologies et en particulier dans la cybercriminalité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-icc · ICC · French
ICC · rank #50,278 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,278
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH hérissons
Nearest frequency peer: hérissons (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « ICC »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hyperactif
hyperactif
49,726 corpus weight
- hâtif
hâtif
49,725 corpus weight
- hérissons
hérissons
49,724 corpus weight
- ICC
ICC
49,723 corpus weight
- ilot
ilot
49,722 corpus weight
- impactant
impactant
49,720 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ICC » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ICC |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.se.se\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #50,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ICC » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ICC is uncommon French at frequency #50,278 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.se.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for ICC in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 ICC, spelled I-C-C.
Definition
- 1Investigateur en cybercriminalité ; désigne un enquêteur de la Police nationale spécialisé dans les nouvelles technologies et en particulier dans la cybercriminalité.
- 2Dans le langage courant du helpdesk, ce sigle signifie « Interface Chaise-Clavier » pour désigner un problème n’ayant rien à voir avec la machine mais plutôt dû à l'utilisateur ; dans le sens où c'est l’utilisateur qui a fait une erreur.
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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