CCE

name

The verdict

“CCE” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #49,543) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#49,543
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organe central de la direction du FLN, créé en 1956, remplacé en 1958 par le GPRA.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cce · CCE · French

CCE · rank #49,543 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #49,543
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH casseur

Nearest frequency peer: casseur (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « CCE »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « CCE » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

CCE vs ce
0% similar
CCE vs ci
0% similar
CCE vs co
0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for CCE
PropertyValue
HeadwordCCE
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters3
Frequency rank#49,543
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CCE »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).CCEse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « casseur » (#49,542), « carénage » (#49,541), « carrez » (#49,540). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « CCE » est au #49,543. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for CCE is neighbouring look-alikes ("ce", "ci", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #49,543 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Organe central de la direction du FLN, créé en 1956, remplacé en 1958 par le GPRA.".

CCE has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ce", "ci", "co", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented 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 French form is CCE, spelled C-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Organe central de la direction du FLN, créé en 1956, remplacé en 1958 par le GPRA.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how CCE appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Abane Ramdane, un des leaders les plus valables du FLN et très proche de Fanon, venait d’être assassiné au Maroc, tombé dans un piège que lui avaient tendu Boussouf, Ben Tobbal et Krim Belkacem, membres du tout-puissant CCE (Comité de coordination et d’exécution).

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "CCE"?
"CCE" is spelled C-C-E.
What does "CCE" mean?
As a proper noun, "CCE" means: Organe central de la direction du FLN, créé en 1956, remplacé en 1958 par le GPRA.
What words are commonly confused with "CCE"?
"CCE" is commonly confused with "ce", "ci", "co". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "CCE" come from?
"CCE" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "CCE", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list