c’est cela
\sɛ sla\
The verdict
“c’est cela” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manière d’exprimer le consentement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-c-est-cela · c’est cela · French
c’est cela · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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 | c’est cela |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \sɛ sla\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “c’est cela” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
c’est cela is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \sɛ sla\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for c’est cela, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is c’est cela, spelled C-’-E-S-T- -C-E-L-A.
Definition
- 1Manière d’exprimer le consentement.
- 2Exprime le scepticisme.
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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.
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