censément
\sɑ̃.se.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“censément” is uncommon French (frequency #81,867 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,867
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Par supposition.
Corpus desk
Index FR-censement · censément · French
censément · rank #81,867 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,867
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH centennial
Nearest frequency peer: centennial (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « censément »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- CCL
CCL
18,137 corpus weight
- CCQ
CCQ
18,136 corpus weight
- censément
censément
18,134 corpus weight
- centennial
centennial
18,133 corpus weight
- cervo
cervo
18,132 corpus weight
- Chailly
Chailly
18,130 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « censément » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | censément |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.se.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,867 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « censément » en français
Rare enough to double-check
censément is uncommon French at frequency #81,867 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \sɑ̃.se.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
censément doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is censément, spelled C-E-N-S-É-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Par supposition.
- 2ou Soi-disant ; peut-être.
- 3En apparence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how censément appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entre nous, m'est avis qu'y devait faire un peu ce contrebande. L'habitude, censément : pendant trois ans Londres lui avait revalu ses services en lui faisant passer whiskies et cigarettes qu'ensuite il pouvait revendre au noir, censément.
[…] savoir : 1° 5,891 fr. montant d'une facture de draps, censément fournis par un sieur Gilson, à la compagnie du Luxembourg, qui n'a rien reçu ; […].
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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