cessait
\sɛ.sɛ\
The verdict
“cessait” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,731. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,731
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe cesser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cessait · cessait · French
cessait · rank #32,731 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,731
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH centrés
Nearest frequency peer: centrés (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cessait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cautionner
cautionner
67,273 corpus weight
- Cavendish
Cavendish
67,272 corpus weight
- centrés
centrés
67,271 corpus weight
- cessait
cessait
67,270 corpus weight
- chamberlain
chamberlain
67,269 corpus weight
- charlatan
charlatan
67,268 corpus weight
What this shows « cessait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cessait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɛ.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cessait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around cessait (IPA \sɛ.sɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,731 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe cesser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cessait, with forms such as "ccessait", "cesait", and "cesasit". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "cessent", "cessant", "chassait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cessait, spelled C-E-S-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe cesser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cessait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gérard ne cessait de rôder autour de la banquette en moleskine, balayant le sol, serpillant les tables proches, dégraissant les miroirs.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccessait
- cesait
- cesasit
- cessaitt
- cessati
- cessiat
- csesait
- ecssait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cessait - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).