cessant

/\sɛ.sɑ̃\/ adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#43,834

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

13

similar word pairs

cessant is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui cesse. Pronounced \sɛ.sɑ̃\. Often confused with cessent and cessons.

Key facts for cessant
PropertyValue
Headwordcessant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\sɛ.sɑ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#43,834
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cessant in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cessant is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛ.sɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #43,834 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui cesse.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for cessant, with forms such as "ccessant", "cesant", and "cesasnt". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "cessent", "cessons", "cuisant", 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 cessant, spelled C-E-S-S-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui cesse.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccessant,cesant,cesasnt,cessannt,cessantt,cessatn,cessnat,csesant,ecssant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cessant

Misspelling Variants of "cessant"

ccessant8cesant6cesasnt7cessannt8cessantt8cessatn7cessnat7csesant7
Misspelling Variants of "cessant"

Frequency rank: #43,834 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cessant"?
"cessant" is spelled C-E-S-S-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛ.sɑ̃\.
What does "cessant" mean?
As an adj, "cessant" means: Qui cesse.
What words are commonly confused with "cessant"?
"cessant" is commonly confused with "cessent", "cessons", "cuisant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cessant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cessant" is \sɛ.sɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cessant" come from?
"cessant" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.