cessent
\sɛs\
The verdict
“cessent” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,011. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,011
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe cesser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cessent · cessent · French
cessent · rank #11,011 · 9 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,011
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH casier
Nearest frequency peer: casier (-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 « cessent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- capsule
capsule
88,993 corpus weight
- capter
capter
88,992 corpus weight
- casier
casier
88,991 corpus weight
- cessent
cessent
88,990 corpus weight
- chargeur
chargeur
88,989 corpus weight
- Charleroi
Charleroi
88,988 corpus weight
What this shows « cessent » 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 | cessent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɛs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cessent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cessent (IPA \sɛs\), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,011 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cessent, with forms such as "ccessent", "cesent", and "cesesnt". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "cesser", "cessez", "cessera", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cessent, spelled C-E-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe cesser.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe cesser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cessent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les esprits de la nature, les seuls que pouvaient concevoir l’homme du Paléolithique, cessent de dominer l’ensemble du paysage religieux, la religion s’anthropomorphise, elle se modèle à l’image de l’homme, et les premiers dieux émergent, créés à cette image.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccessent
- cesent
- cesesnt
- cessennt
- cessentt
- cessetn
- cessnet
- csesent
- ecssent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cessent - 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 "cessent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).