cessaient
\sɛ.sɛ\
The verdict
“cessaient” is uncommon French (frequency #59,875 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,875
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe cesser.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cessaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɛ.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cessaient” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cessaient is uncommon French at frequency #59,875 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sɛ.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe cesser.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cessaient in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cessaient, spelled C-E-S-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe cesser.
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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Using “cessaient”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-E-S-S-A-I-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sɛ.sɛ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.