Sézanne
\se.zan\
The verdict
“Sézanne” is uncommon French (frequency #72,779 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,779
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Marne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sezanne · Sézanne · French
Sézanne · rank #72,779 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,779
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH séropositive
Nearest frequency peer: séropositive (-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 « Sézanne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sédentarisa…
sédentarisation
27,225 corpus weight
- Séguy
Séguy
27,224 corpus weight
- séropositive
séropositive
27,223 corpus weight
- Sézanne
Sézanne
27,222 corpus weight
- sœurette
sœurette
27,221 corpus weight
- targa
targa
27,219 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Sézanne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sézanne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \se.zan\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,779 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Sézanne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Sézanne is uncommon French at frequency #72,779 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \se.zan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Marne.".
Sézanne has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Sézanne, spelled S-É-Z-A-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Marne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sézanne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A deux lieues de Sézanne on rencontrait, à Saint-Prix, l'extrémité des marais de Saint-Gond, et au milieu de ces marais la petite rivière dite le Petit-Morin, qui longe le pied de terrains élevés sur lesquels passe la chaussée de Montmirail à Meaux.
La brigade motorisée (BMO) de Sézanne a réalisé une sacrée prise sur les routes de la Marne.
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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