MCA
\ɛm.se.a\
The verdict
“MCA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #37,916) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #37,916
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation de méthode des coûts par activité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mca · MCA · French
MCA · rank #37,916 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,916
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH martelé
Nearest frequency peer: martelé (-2 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 « MCA »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- manuelles
manuelles
62,089 corpus weight
- marginalisa…
marginalisation
62,088 corpus weight
- martelé
martelé
62,087 corpus weight
- MCA
MCA
62,085 corpus weight
- Melville
Melville
62,083 corpus weight
- merguez
merguez
62,081 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « MCA » 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 | MCA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛm.se.a\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #37,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « MCA »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for MCA is neighbouring look-alikes ("me", "mm", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɛm.se.a\. Frequency #37,916 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Abréviation de méthode des coûts par activité.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for MCA, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "me", "mm", "mi", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is MCA, spelled M-C-A.
Definition
- 1Abréviation de méthode des coûts par activité.
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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