cela s’entend
\sə.la s‿ɑ̃.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“cela s’entend” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bien sûr. Il faut le comprendre ainsi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cela-s-entend · cela s’entend · French
cela s’entend · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | cela s’entend |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \sə.la s‿ɑ̃.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
cela s’entend is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \sə.la s‿ɑ̃.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bien sûr. Il faut le comprendre ainsi.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cela s’entend, 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, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cela s’entend, spelled C-E-L-A- -S-’-E-N-T-E-N-D.
Definition
- 1Bien sûr. Il faut le comprendre ainsi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cela s’entend appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
S’il arrive que ces vers-ci aient le bonheur de vous plaire (ils lui plairont par conséquent), je ne me donnerois pas pour un autre ; et continuerai encore quelques années de suivre Chloris, et Bacchus, et Apollon, et ce qui s’ensuit : avec la modération requise, cela s’entend.
Le poète oublie de nous dire, mais cela s’entend, que Fénice n’avait pas de mère.
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.