cella
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#90,089
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
cella is aGermannoun. It means: Zelle; die kleinste, strukturell-funktionelle Einheit aller Lebewesen, die eigenständig leben kann Pronounced [ˈt͡ʃɛlla].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cella |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡ʃɛlla] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,089 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for cella is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡ʃɛlla]. Corpus data places it at rank #90,089 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for cella in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is cella, spelled C-E-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Zelle; die kleinste, strukturell-funktionelle Einheit aller Lebewesen, die eigenständig leben kann
- 2Kammer, Raum, Zelle; ein kleiner, abgegrenzter Raum in einem Gebäude, oft bezogen auf religiöse oder spirituelle Rückzugsorte wie in Klöstern oder Kirchen
- 3Gefängniszelle; ein Raum in einem Gefängnis, der zur Unterbringung von Gefangenen dient
- 4Wabe, Honigwabe; eine von Bienen erstellte Struktur aus Wachszellen, die zur Lagerung von Honig und zur Aufzucht der Brut verwendet wird
- 5Speicher; ein Speicherplatz in einem elektronischen Gerät oder in einem Computersystem, der zur Speicherung von Daten dient
Frequency rank: #90,089 in German
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