cessation
\sɛ.sa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“cessation” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,828. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,828
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de cesser quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cessation · cessation · French
cessation · rank #16,828 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,828
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH centime
Nearest frequency peer: centime (-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 « cessation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- caviar
caviar
83,176 corpus weight
- Cayenne
Cayenne
83,175 corpus weight
- centime
centime
83,174 corpus weight
- cessation
cessation
83,173 corpus weight
- charia
charia
83,172 corpus weight
- chimiste
chimiste
83,170 corpus weight
What this shows « cessation » 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 | cessation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ.sa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #16,828 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cessation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around cessation (IPA \sɛ.sa.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,828 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action de cesser quelque chose.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for cessation, with forms such as "ccessation", "cesastion", and "cesation". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "cession", "cassation", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cessation, spelled C-E-S-S-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de cesser quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cessation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Donc, la cessation d'une épidémie ne tient pas à ce que le principe morbifique existant a perdu de sa malignité, mais à l’immunité acquise par la population où elle vient de sévir, combinée avec l’extinction rapide du principe même.
J’ai entendu dire que pour les cessations de feu on arborait le drapeau blanc ; j’ai mon mouchoir, — il est bleu.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccessation
- cesastion
- cesation
- cessaiton
- cessatino
- cessationn
- cessatoin
- cessattion
- cesstaion
- csesation
- ecssation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cessation - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).