cease fire
"cease-fire" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cease fire” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of ceasefire.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cease-fire · cease fire · English
cease fire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | cease fire |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cease fire” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cease fire is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of ceasefire.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cease fire, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is cease fire, spelled C-E-A-S-E- -F-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of ceasefire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cease fire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I also encourage all of us to begin the cease fire in America's culture war by taking the initiative of inviting someone from the other camp to lunch.
in El Salvador, they declared a cease fire after ten years. Why didn't they think of that at the beginning?
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.