cell
[sɛl]
The verdict
“cell” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,129) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,129
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zelle
Corpus desk
Index DE-cell · cell · German
cell · rank #28,129 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,129
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH cats
Nearest frequency peer: cats (-2 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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „cell“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Camper
Camper
71,877 corpus weight
- cara
cara
71,876 corpus weight
- cats
cats
71,874 corpus weight
- cell
cell
71,872 corpus weight
- Christel
Christel
71,870 corpus weight
- Clyde
Clyde
71,869 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „cell“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cell |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sɛl] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #28,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „cell“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cell is neighbouring look-alikes ("cl", "CEO", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [sɛl]. Frequency #28,129 among 1,273 “C” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for cell, with forms such as "ccell", "cel", and "clel". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cl", "CEO", "col", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is cell, spelled C-E-L-L.
Definition
- 1Zelle
- 2kleiner Raum, zum Beispiel in einem Kloster oder Gefängnis, in dem (meist) eine Person lebt; Zelle
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccell
- cel
- clel
- ecll
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cell - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cell", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).