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“CCAS” and “chase” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#47,777
“CCAS” frequency rank
#15,831
“chase” frequency rank
63608
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature CCAS chase
Definition En France, centre chargé de l’action sociale dans une commune. Poursuite, suite, chasse.

Letter map: CCAS vs chase

Shared letters muted; letters that set CCAS and chase apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. CCAS runs 4 letters (CCVC) against chase's 5 (CCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
CCAS
5 ch
chase

Spelling & dictionary notes on CCAS vs chase

CCAS and chase are indexed as a confusable French pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63608, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

CCAS is recorded at frequency rank #47,777, classified as anoun. chase is at rank #15,831, tagged as anoun, pronounced \tʃeɪs\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 63608, this pair ranks #81,129 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of CCAS vs chase

Shared letters: acs. Private to "CCAS": -. Private to "chase": eh.

"CCAS" · 4 letters · shape CCVC  ·  "chase" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • CCAS ← cacs · ccsa
  • chase ← cahse · cchase · chaes · chhase · chsae · hcase

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "CCAS" and "chase" be used interchangeably?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
In ordinary French text, does "CCAS" or "chase" show up more?
"chase" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,831 in our French list, against #47,777 for "CCAS". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "CCAS" and "chase". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "CCAS" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "chase" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #81,129 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "CCAS" and "chase" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "CCAS vs CCE". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #81,129 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list