sans cesse
\sɑ̃ sɛs\
The verdict
“sans cesse” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - En se répétant continuellement ; sans s’arrêter.
| 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) |
Where “sans cesse” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sans cesse is 10 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɑ̃ sɛs\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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.
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Using “sans cesse”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-A-N-S- -C-E-S-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sɑ̃ sɛs\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.