cessèrent
\sɛ.sɛʁ\
The verdict
“cessèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #57,817 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,817
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe cesser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cesserent · cessèrent · French
cessèrent · rank #57,817 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,817
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH celebration
Nearest frequency peer: celebration (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cessèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caster
caster
42,188 corpus weight
- cations
cations
42,186 corpus weight
- celebration
celebration
42,185 corpus weight
- cessèrent
cessèrent
42,184 corpus weight
- chakras
chakras
42,183 corpus weight
- chalutiers
chalutiers
42,182 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cessèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cessèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɛ.sɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cessèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cessèrent is uncommon French at frequency #57,817 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sɛ.sɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe cesser.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cessèrent in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cessèrent, spelled C-E-S-S-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe cesser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cessèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais quand, avec la baisse des prix, le manque de confiance, le krach de Wall Street, les gens cessèrent d’acheter, ce chômage augmenta en progression géométrique.
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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