DCE
\de.se.ə\
The verdict
“DCE” is uncommon French (frequency #59,211 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,211
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble des pièces nécessaires à la consultation des candidats à un marché public transmis au candidat par le pouvoir adjudicateur ou l’entité adjudicatrice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dce · DCE · French
DCE · rank #59,211 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,211
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH DDR
Nearest frequency peer: DDR (+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 « DCE »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cupides
cupides
40,795 corpus weight
- césium
césium
40,793 corpus weight
- côtelettes
côtelettes
40,792 corpus weight
- DCE
DCE
40,790 corpus weight
- DDR
DDR
40,789 corpus weight
- democratic
democratic
40,788 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « DCE » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | DCE |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.se.ə\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #59,211 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « DCE » en français
Rare enough to double-check
DCE is uncommon French at frequency #59,211 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.se.ə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ensemble des pièces nécessaires à la consultation des candidats à un marché public transmis au candidat par le pouvoir adjudicateur ou l’entité adjudicatrice.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for DCE, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is DCE, spelled D-C-E.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des pièces nécessaires à la consultation des candidats à un marché public transmis au candidat par le pouvoir adjudicateur ou l’entité adjudicatrice.
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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