CEA
\se.ø.a\
The verdict
“CEA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,564) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,564
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, anciennement Commissariat à l’énergie atomique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cea · CEA · French
CEA · rank #21,564 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,564
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cavernes
Nearest frequency peer: cavernes (-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 « CEA »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- carences
carences
78,440 corpus weight
- cassez
cassez
78,439 corpus weight
- cavernes
cavernes
78,438 corpus weight
- CEA
CEA
78,437 corpus weight
- CEE
CEE
78,436 corpus weight
- changeront
changeront
78,435 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « CEA » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | CEA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \se.ø.a\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,564 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CEA »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CEA is neighbouring look-alikes ("ci", "co", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \se.ø.a\. Frequency #21,564 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, anciennement Commissariat à l’énergie atomique.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for CEA, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ci", "co", "Cm", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is CEA, spelled C-E-A.
Definition
- 1Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, anciennement Commissariat à l’énergie atomique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how CEA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Conçu en 1945 comme une entité généraliste, incarnant le secteur nucléaire, le CEA a une « compétence atomique générale »16.
Désormais ouvert sur de multiples domaines (médecine, énergies, numérique, défense et sécurité), le CEA est devenu le premier organisme de recherches à déposer des brevets en France, et la première institution hexagonale à en déposer en Europe.
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.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).