# CE vs ci

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### CE
*name · frequency rank #9,145*
Initialism of Common Era, Current Era, or Christian Era. Equivalent of AD. Like other era initialisms, often written in small caps.

### ci
*noun · frequency rank #14,294*
One of the Classical Chinese poetry forms

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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