sans cesse
\sɑ̃ sɛs\
The verdict
“sans cesse” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En se répétant continuellement ; sans s’arrêter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sans-cesse · sans cesse · French
sans cesse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sans cesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \sɑ̃ sɛs\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sans cesse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sans cesse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \sɑ̃ sɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "En se répétant continuellement ; sans s’arrêter.".
sans cesse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is sans cesse, spelled S-A-N-S- -C-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1En se répétant continuellement ; sans s’arrêter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sans cesse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il excelle à cintrer ses boudets pour qu’ils épousent bien la fesse du tendeur et ne viennent point lui baller sans cesse entre les cuisses.
[…], et longtemps il s’acharna à pédaler à une vitesse de trente kilomètres à l’heure sur des routes sans cesse plus poussiéreuses […].
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.