CICE
\se.i.se.ø\
The verdict
“CICE” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,374. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,374
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dispositif fiscal français, créé en 2013 et supprimé en 2019, qui permettait aux entreprises de bénéficier d’un crédit d’impôt calculé sur la masse salariale, dans le but de soutenir la rémunératio...
Corpus desk
Index FR-cice · CICE · French
CICE · rank #17,374 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,374
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cicatrice
Nearest frequency peer: cicatrice (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « CICE »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chartes
chartes
82,632 corpus weight
- cicatrice
cicatrice
82,628 corpus weight
- CICE
CICE
82,627 corpus weight
- clandestine
clandestine
82,626 corpus weight
- clash
clash
82,624 corpus weight
- climatisati…
climatisation
82,623 corpus weight
What this shows « CICE » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | CICE |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.i.se.ø\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #17,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « CICE »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around CICE (IPA \se.i.se.ø\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,374 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Dispositif fiscal français, créé en 2013 et supprimé en 2019, qui permettait aux entreprises de bénéficier d’un crédit d’impôt calculé sur la masse salariale, dans le but de soutenir la rémunératio...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for CICE, with forms such as "ccice", "ccie", and "cicce". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "clé", "CPE", "CIV", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is CICE, spelled C-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Dispositif fiscal français, créé en 2013 et supprimé en 2019, qui permettait aux entreprises de bénéficier d’un crédit d’impôt calculé sur la masse salariale, dans le but de soutenir la rémunération globale des salarié·e·s et d’encourager l’investissement, la recherche et l’emploi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CICE appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi, le sinistre Crédit d’impôt compétitivité emploi, le CICE, a fait perdre 100 milliards d’euros de recettes à l’État, pour de très faibles créations d’emplois, selon l’avis même de France Stratégie, l’organisme qui avait soutenu l’adoption de cette mesure absurde. En revanche, le CICE a été utilisé par les entreprises comme elles le veulent, à commen…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccice
- ccie
- cicce
- ciec
- icce
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of CICE - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).