cession
\sɛ.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“cession” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,078. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,078
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de céder, de transférer à un autre ce dont on est propriétaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cession · cession · French
cession · rank #8,078 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,078
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carter
Nearest frequency peer: carter (-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 « cession »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- budgétaire
budgétaire
91,926 corpus weight
- Cameron
Cameron
91,925 corpus weight
- carter
carter
91,924 corpus weight
- cession
cession
91,923 corpus weight
- charmante
charmante
91,922 corpus weight
- cliniques
cliniques
91,921 corpus weight
What this shows « cession » 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 | cession |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,078 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cession »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around cession (IPA \sɛ.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,078 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action de céder, de transférer à un autre ce dont on est propriétaire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cession, with forms such as "ccession", "cesion", and "cesison". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "cessons", "cresson", "cessions", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cession, spelled C-E-S-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de céder, de transférer à un autre ce dont on est propriétaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cession appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faire cession de sa créance. (Droit international) Cession de territoire.
Cession de biens, Abandon qu’un débiteur fait de tous ses biens à ses créanciers lorsqu’il est hors d’état de payer ses dettes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccession
- cesion
- cesison
- cessino
- cessionn
- cessoin
- csesion
- ecssion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cession - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).