camevsCeWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: came is a verb, Ce is an abbrev, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“came” is a verb and “Ce” is an abbrev - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#37,428
“came” frequency rank
#12,475
“Ce” frequency rank
49903
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature came Ce
Definition Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs come Cer

Letter map: came vs Ce

Shared letters muted; letters that set came and Ce apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
came
2 ch
Ce

Role in the sentence - came and Ce

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: came is averb and Ceanabbrev. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49903, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

came is recorded at frequency rank #37,428, classified as averb, pronounced […]. Ce is at rank #12,475, tagged as anabbrev.

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 49903, this pair ranks #1,194,034 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of came vs Ce

Shared letters: ce. Private to "came": am. Private to "Ce": -.

"came" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "Ce" · 2 letters · shape CV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • cameacme · caem · camme · ccame · cmae

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "came" for "Ce" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "came" is a verb and "Ce" an abbrev, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "came" or "Ce"?
"Ce" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,475 in our German list, against #37,428 for "came". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "came" and "Ce". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "came" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Ce" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,194,034 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "came" and "Ce" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "came vs puzzles". 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 #1,194,034 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list