césar
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,480
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
césar is aFrenchnoun. It means: Empereur ; autocrate ; dictateur. Pronounced \se.zaʁ\. It ranks #4,480 in French word frequency. Often confused with CSA and CSR.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | césar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.zaʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for césar is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \se.zaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,480 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for césar, with forms such as "ccésar", "cesar", and "cséar". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CSA", "CSR", "char", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is césar, spelled C-É-S-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Empereur ; autocrate ; dictateur.
- 2Prince de l’empire byzantin. Titre notamment dévolu aux fils de l’empereur.
- 3Celui, celle qui est né par l’opération de la césarienne.
- 4Récompense honorifique française destinée aux professionnels du cinéma.
- 5Salade traditionnelle de brasserie composée essentiellement de croutons, de lardons, d’œuf et de parmesan, sur des feuilles de laitue romaine.
- 6Tartare de bœuf assaisonné et poêlé.
- 7Sauce à base essentiellement d’œuf, d’huile, d’ail, d’anchois, de parmesan et de crème.
- 8Cépage donnant du raisin sphérique, noir, à peau épaisse. Il est destiné entre autre à produire du vin rouge qui est également appelé romain. Bien qu’autorisé, il n’y en avait que 10 hectares en France en 2008.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccésar,cesar,cséar,céasr,césarr,césra,céssar,écsar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for césar
Misspelling Variants of "césar"
Frequency rank: #4,480 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: