CSE
\se.es.ø\
The verdict
“CSE” is uncommon French (frequency #58,534 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,534
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cellule souche embryonnaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cse · CSE · French
CSE · rank #58,534 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,534
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH croissances
Nearest frequency peer: croissances (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « CSE »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coué
coué
41,471 corpus weight
- crackers
crackers
41,470 corpus weight
- croissances
croissances
41,468 corpus weight
- CSE
CSE
41,467 corpus weight
- cèpes
cèpes
41,465 corpus weight
- célestins
célestins
41,464 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « CSE » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | CSE |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.es.ø\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #58,534 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « CSE » en français
Rare enough to double-check
CSE is uncommon French at frequency #58,534 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \se.es.ø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cellule souche embryonnaire.".
CSE has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is CSE, spelled C-S-E.
Definition
- 1Cellule souche embryonnaire.
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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