ASCE
"asce" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ASCE” is uncommon English (frequency #77,426 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,426
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of American Society of Civil Engineers.
Corpus desk
Index EN-asce · ASCE · English
ASCE · rank #77,426 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,426
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Asgardian
Nearest frequency peer: Asgardian (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “ASCE”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- armorial
armorial
22,579 corpus weight
- ASCE
ASCE
22,575 corpus weight
- Asgardian
Asgardian
22,574 corpus weight
- astrakhan
astrakhan
22,573 corpus weight
- Aubin
Aubin
22,571 corpus weight
- aul
aul
22,570 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ASCE” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ASCE |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #77,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ASCE” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ASCE is uncommon English at frequency #77,426 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Initialism of American Society of Civil Engineers.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ASCE, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is ASCE, spelled A-S-C-E.
Definition
- 1Initialism of American Society of Civil Engineers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ASCE appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The builders of steam engines and other machines also wanted to be known as professional engineers, but the old fuds in ASCE had a very narrow definition of engineering - if you did not build structures, then you could not be an engineer.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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