MCE
\ɛm.se.ø\
The verdict
“MCE” is uncommon French (frequency #71,694 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,694
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mécanisme de taux de change introduit par la Communauté européenne destiné à stabiliser les cours des devises européennes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mce · MCE · French
MCE · rank #71,694 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,694
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Maubert
Nearest frequency peer: Maubert (-3 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 « MCE »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- married
married
28,314 corpus weight
- Marsha
Marsha
28,313 corpus weight
- massues
massues
28,312 corpus weight
- Maubert
Maubert
28,310 corpus weight
- MCE
MCE
28,307 corpus weight
- medicare
medicare
28,302 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « MCE » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | MCE |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛm.se.ø\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #71,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « MCE » en français
Rare enough to double-check
MCE is uncommon French at frequency #71,694 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛm.se.ø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mécanisme de taux de change introduit par la Communauté européenne destiné à stabiliser les cours des devises européennes.".
MCE has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is MCE, spelled M-C-E.
Definition
- 1Mécanisme de taux de change introduit par la Communauté européenne destiné à stabiliser les cours des devises européennes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how MCE appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’avril à décembre 1998, la drachme s’était négociée au-dessus de sa parité centrale du MCE par rapport à la médiane du panier de monnaies, et elle est depuis lors régulièrement restée supérieure à son taux pivot du MCE-II vis-à-vis de l’euro.
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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