cette
[sɛt]
The verdict
“cette” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #82,726 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,726
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Esta, femenino singular de ce.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cette · cette · Spanish
cette · rank #82,726 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,726
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cerrillo
Nearest frequency peer: cerrillo (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “cette”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- cercando
cercando
17,278 corpus weight
- cercenar
cercenar
17,277 corpus weight
- cerrillo
cerrillo
17,276 corpus weight
- cette
cette
17,275 corpus weight
- chaman
chaman
17,273 corpus weight
- changuito
changuito
17,272 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cette” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cette |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [sɛt] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,726 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cette” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cette is uncommon Spanish at frequency #82,726 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed [sɛt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Esta, femenino singular de ce.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cette in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is cette, spelled C-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Esta, femenino singular de ce.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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