CCEvscocuWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: CCE is a name, cocu is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#49,543
“CCE” frequency rank
#25,931
“cocu” frequency rank
75474
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature CCE cocu
Definition Organe central de la direction du FLN, créé en 1956, remplacé en 1958 par le GPRA. Dupé, trompé, victime d’infidélité conjugale.

Letter map: CCE vs cocu

Shared letters muted; letters that set CCE and cocu apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. CCE runs 3 letters (CCV) against cocu's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

3 ch
CCE
4 ch
cocu

Part-of-speech tell for CCE / cocu

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: CCE is aname and cocuanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 75474, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

CCE is recorded at frequency rank #49,543, classified as aname. cocu is at rank #25,931, tagged as anadj, pronounced \kɔ.ky\.

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 75474, this pair ranks #33,986 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of CCE vs cocu

Shared letters: c. Private to "CCE": e. Private to "cocu": ou.

"CCE" · 3 letters · shape CCV  ·  "cocu" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • cocu ← ccocu · ccou · coccu · couc · occu

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "CCE" and "cocu" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "CCE" is a name and "cocu" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "CCE" vs "cocu" - which ranks higher?
"cocu" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,931 in our French list, against #49,543 for "CCE". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "CCE" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "cocu" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #33,986 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "CCE" and "cocu" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "CCE vs CPGE". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #33,986 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list