CCE vs ces, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“CCE” is a name and “ces” is a determiner - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#49,543
“CCE” frequency rank: #74
“ces” frequency rank: 49617
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	CCE	ces
Definition	Organe central de la direction du FLN, créé en 1956, remplacé en 1958 par le GPRA.	Pluriel de ce et cette.

Letter map: CCE vs ces

Shared letters muted; letters that set CCE and ces apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

3 ch

CCE

3 ch

ces

Grammar separator: CCE vs ces

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: CCE is aname and cesadeterminer. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49617, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

CCE is recorded at frequency rank #49,543, classified as aname. ces is at rank #74, tagged as adet, pronounced \se\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 49617, this pair ranks #169,188 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of CCE vs ces

Shared letters: ce. Private to "CCE": -. Private to "ces": s.

"CCE" · 3 letters · shape CCV · "ces" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "CCE" for "ces" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "CCE" is a name and "ces" a determiner, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "CCE" or "ces"?

"ces" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #74 in our French list, against #49,543 for "CCE". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "CCE" and "ces".

Full dictionary entry for "CCE" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "ces" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #169,188 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"CCE" and "ces" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "CCE vs CPGE". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #169,188 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.