cernent
\sɛʁn\
The verdict
“cernent” is uncommon French (frequency #86,530 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,530
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe cerner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cernent · cernent · French
cernent · rank #86,530 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,530
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH catalogués
Nearest frequency peer: catalogués (-2 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 « cernent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- castriste
castriste
13,475 corpus weight
- cataloguée
cataloguée
13,474 corpus weight
- catalogués
catalogués
13,473 corpus weight
- cernent
cernent
13,471 corpus weight
- chamelle
chamelle
13,469 corpus weight
- Champagny
Champagny
13,468 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cernent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cernent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɛʁn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,530 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cernent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cernent is uncommon French at frequency #86,530 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sɛʁn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for cernent in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cernent, spelled C-E-R-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe cerner.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe cerner.
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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