Ces
[t͡sɛs]
The verdict
“Ces” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,690) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,690
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ton mit 495 Hz und alle Töne im Oktavabstand dazu, um einen Halbton vermindertes C
Corpus desk
Index DE-ces · Ces · German
Ces · rank #35,690 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,690
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Checkpoint
Nearest frequency peer: Checkpoint (+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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „Ces“
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64,311 corpus weight
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64,310 corpus weight
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What this shows Balken platzieren „Ces“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | Ces |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t͡sɛs] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #35,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Ces“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ces is neighbouring look-alikes ("cm", "Ch", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [t͡sɛs]. Frequency #35,690 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Ton mit 495 Hz und alle Töne im Oktavabstand dazu, um einen Halbton vermindertes C".
Ces doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cm", "Ch", "cl", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Ces, spelled C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Ton mit 495 Hz und alle Töne im Oktavabstand dazu, um einen Halbton vermindertes C
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ces appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Denke bitte daran in Takt 5 ein Ces zu spielen!
Synonyms
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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