cesses
\sɛs\
The verdict
“cesses” is uncommon French (frequency #65,778 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,778
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de cesser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cesses · cesses · French
cesses · rank #65,778 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,778
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CCR
Nearest frequency peer: CCR (-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 « cesses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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cartoons
34,226 corpus weight
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34,225 corpus weight
- CCR
CCR
34,224 corpus weight
- cesses
cesses
34,223 corpus weight
- Challans
Challans
34,222 corpus weight
- changeur
changeur
34,221 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cesses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cesses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɛs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cesses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cesses is uncommon French at frequency #65,778 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for cesses in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cesses, spelled C-E-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de cesser.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de cesser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cesses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Combien de fois faudra-t-il rouspétailler pour que tu cesses de me faire tressauter ?
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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