CEE
\se.ø.ø\
The verdict
“CEE” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #21,565 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #21,565
- frequency rank, French
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - La Communauté économique européenne, l’ancienne union économique fondée par le Traité de Rome en 1957 avec initialement 6 pays européens, étendue au fil des années jusqu’à 15 pays, et l’une des Com...
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 | CEE |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \se.ø.ø\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,565 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “CEE” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for CEE is 3 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \se.ø.ø\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,565 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "La Communauté économique européenne, l’ancienne union économique fondée par le Traité de Rome en 1957 avec initialement 6 pays européens, étendue au fil des années jusqu’à 15 pays, et l’une des Com...".
Zero misspellings are on record for CEE in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ci", "co", "Cm", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is CEE, spelled C-E-E.
Definition
- 1La Communauté économique européenne, l’ancienne union économique fondée par le Traité de Rome en 1957 avec initialement 6 pays européens, étendue au fil des années jusqu’à 15 pays, et l’une des Communautés européennes qui ont précédé l’actuelle l’Union européenne formée par le Traité de fusion en 1992, qui les a intégrées dans la Communauté européenne (un des trois « piliers de l’Union »).
This word in other languages
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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Using “CEE”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-E-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \se.ø.ø\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “ci” - see the side-by-side comparison. CEE vs ci
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.