Cèze
\sɛz\
The verdict
“Cèze” is uncommon French (frequency #71,414 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,414
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rivière du midi de la France trouvant sa source dans les Cévennes, affluent du Rhône sur sa rive droite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ceze · Cèze · French
Cèze · rank #71,414 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,414
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cystite
Nearest frequency peer: cystite (-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 « Cèze »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cylons
Cylons
28,590 corpus weight
- cyrène
cyrène
28,589 corpus weight
- cystite
cystite
28,588 corpus weight
- Cèze
Cèze
28,587 corpus weight
- céréalières
céréalières
28,586 corpus weight
- côtoyaient
côtoyaient
28,585 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cèze » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cèze |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sɛz\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #71,414 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cèze » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cèze is uncommon French at frequency #71,414 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \sɛz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rivière du midi de la France trouvant sa source dans les Cévennes, affluent du Rhône sur sa rive droite.".
Cèze doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Cèze, spelled C-È-Z-E.
Definition
- 1Rivière du midi de la France trouvant sa source dans les Cévennes, affluent du Rhône sur sa rive droite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Cèze appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A l’inverse du Vidourle supérieur ou du Gard inférieur qui se perdent chaque été pour résurger à de grosses sources karstiques (M. Ricolvi 19G8; G. Farre 1972 b), la Cèze disparait rarement totalement.
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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