ceste
\sɛst\
The verdict
“ceste” is uncommon French (frequency #68,895 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,895
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom d’un gantelet de cuir souvent garni de plomb, qui servait aux anciens athlètes, pour combattre à coups de poings, dans les jeux publics.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ceste · ceste · French
ceste · rank #68,895 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,895
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chacuns
Nearest frequency peer: chacuns (+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 « ceste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cassiopée
Cassiopée
31,110 corpus weight
- Cavaignac
Cavaignac
31,109 corpus weight
- ceste
ceste
31,106 corpus weight
- chacuns
chacuns
31,105 corpus weight
- Chalais
Chalais
31,104 corpus weight
- Chandon
Chandon
31,103 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ceste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ceste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛst\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ceste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ceste is uncommon French at frequency #68,895 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom d’un gantelet de cuir souvent garni de plomb, qui servait aux anciens athlètes, pour combattre à coups de poings, dans les jeux publics.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ceste in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ceste, spelled C-E-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nom d’un gantelet de cuir souvent garni de plomb, qui servait aux anciens athlètes, pour combattre à coups de poings, dans les jeux publics.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ceste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
le prix du ceste : le prix donné au vainqueur dans cette sorte de combat.
Mes mains exercées à soulever un ceste de fer qui donne la mort, mollissaient sur la poitrine désarmée du nain fantastique.
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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