cesse
\sɛs\
The verdict
“cesse” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,464) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,464
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fin, relâche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cesse · cesse · French
cesse · rank #2,464 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,464
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cercle
Nearest frequency peer: cercle (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « cesse »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- attente
attente
97,540 corpus weight
- by
by
97,539 corpus weight
- cercle
cercle
97,538 corpus weight
- cesse
cesse
97,537 corpus weight
- charges
charges
97,536 corpus weight
- chiens
chiens
97,535 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « cesse » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | cesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « cesse »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cesse is neighbouring look-alikes ("CSS", "cette", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \sɛs\. Frequency #2,464 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Fin, relâche.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for cesse, with forms such as "ccesse", "ceses", and "csese". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CSS", "cette", "chose", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cesse, spelled C-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Fin, relâche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cesse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sa haine contre vous n'aurait jamais de cesse.
Ô cruauté du sort qui n'a jamais de cesse !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccesse
- ceses
- csese
- ecsse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cesse - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cesse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).