caesura
/sɪˈzjʊəɹə/
"caesura" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“caesura” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
Corpus desk
Index EN-caesura · caesura · English
caesura · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caesura |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɪˈzjʊəɹə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “caesura” in English
Rare enough to double-check
caesura is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /sɪˈzjʊəɹə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for caesura, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Latin caesūra (“cutting, hewing”), from caesus, perfect passive participle of caedō (“I cut down, hew”). The correct English form is caesura, spelled C-A-E-S-U-R-A.
Definition
- 1A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
- 2Using two words to divide a metrical foot.
- 3The caesura mark ‖ or ||.
- 4A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caesura appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The caesura is meant to fall not with the comma after difficult, but after thou; and there is a most effective and grand suspension intended. It is Satan who speaks— Satan in the wilderness; and he marks, as he wishes to mark, the tremendous opposition of attitude between the two parties to the temptation.
Now, then, for my prologue. I am not going to change my cæsuras and cadences for anybody; so if you do not like the heroic, or iambic trimeter brachy-catalectic, you had better not wait to hear it […]
Etymology
Latin caesūra (“cutting, hewing”), from caesus, perfect passive participle of caedō (“I cut down, hew”).
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.