CEO
The verdict
“CEO” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,679) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,679
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de PDG
Corpus desk
Index FR-ceo · CEO · French
CEO · rank #18,679 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,679
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cendrillon
Nearest frequency peer: cendrillon (-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 « CEO »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- cagnotte
cagnotte
81,325 corpus weight
- card
card
81,324 corpus weight
- cendrillon
cendrillon
81,323 corpus weight
- CEO
CEO
81,322 corpus weight
- chalon
chalon
81,321 corpus weight
- chancellerie
chancellerie
81,320 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « CEO » 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 | CEO |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,679 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CEO »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CEO is neighbouring look-alikes ("ci", "co", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #18,679 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Synonyme de PDG".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for CEO, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is CEO, spelled C-E-O.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de PDG
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how CEO appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Il n’y a pas de raison pour le moment de changer de nom », a insisté son CEO Bernard Gustin.
Le fabricant d’ingrédients de boulangerie, pâtisserie et chocolaterie Puratos, dont le siège est à Grand-Bigard, annonce ce lundi la nomination de Pierre Tossut en tant que CEO à compter du 1ᵉʳ janvier prochain.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).