CES
"ces" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“CES” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,610) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,610
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Center for Employee Services.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ces · CES · English
CES · rank #22,610 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,610
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cert
Nearest frequency peer: cert (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “CES”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- cayman
cayman
77,394 corpus weight
- celeste
celeste
77,393 corpus weight
- cert
cert
77,392 corpus weight
- CES
CES
77,391 corpus weight
- chandelier
chandelier
77,390 corpus weight
- Chandra
Chandra
77,389 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “CES” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,610 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “CES”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CES is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CM", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #22,610 among 5,599 “C” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for CES in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CM", "CT", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is CES, spelled C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Center for Employee Services.
- 2Initialism of Consumer Electronics Show
- 3Commonwealth Employment Service.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CES appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1976, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Official Year Book of Australia: No. 61, 1975 and 1976, page 722, The organisation and functions of the CES conform to the provisions of the Employment Service Convention, 1948, of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) which was ratified by Australia in December 1949.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).