ce
/t͡ʃe/
The verdict
“ce” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,311) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,311
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - o que
Corpus desk
Index PT-ce · ce · Portuguese
ce · rank #3,311 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,311
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH calendário
Nearest frequency peer: calendário (-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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “ce”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- calendário
calendário
96,691 corpus weight
- ce
ce
96,690 corpus weight
- coelho
coelho
96,687 corpus weight
- consequência
consequência
96,684 corpus weight
- convenção
convenção
96,683 corpus weight
- crescente
crescente
96,682 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ce” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ce |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /t͡ʃe/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #3,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ce”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ce is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "cu", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /t͡ʃe/. Frequency #3,311 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Gloss: "o que".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ce, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "cu", "ci", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is ce, spelled C-E.
Definition
- 1o que
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ce appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce vrei să faci?
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.