NSA
\ɛn.ɛs.a\
The verdict
“NSA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,019) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,019
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - « Agence de sécurité nationale » américaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nsa · NSA · French
NSA · rank #13,019 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,019
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nova
Nearest frequency peer: nova (-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 « NSA »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- naïve
naïve
86,985 corpus weight
- nocturnes
nocturnes
86,984 corpus weight
- nova
nova
86,983 corpus weight
- NSA
NSA
86,982 corpus weight
- nécessitent
nécessitent
86,981 corpus weight
- odeurs
odeurs
86,979 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « NSA » 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 | NSA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛn.ɛs.a\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #13,019 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « NSA »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for NSA is neighbouring look-alikes ("nu", "ny", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \ɛn.ɛs.a\. Frequency #13,019 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Gloss: "« Agence de sécurité nationale » américaine.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for NSA, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "nu", "ny", "Nt", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 NSA, spelled N-S-A.
Definition
- 1« Agence de sécurité nationale » américaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how NSA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Je n’essaie pas de faire tomber la NSA, j’essaie de l’améliorer », a-t-il [Edward Snowden] ajouté, avant d’ironiser : « Je travaille encore pour la NSA aujourd'hui. Elle est la seule à ne pas s’en rendre compte. »
« Dans un monde où il n’y aurait pas de restrictions pour tuer un Américain, j’irais et je le [Edward Snowden] tuerais moi-même », a ajouté un analyste de la NSA.
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).