Celebes
/sɪˈliːbiːz/
"celebes" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Celebes” is uncommon English (frequency #83,104 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,104
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Former name of Sulawesi.
Corpus desk
Index EN-celebes · Celebes · English
Celebes · rank #83,104 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,104
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH catfishing
Nearest frequency peer: catfishing (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Celebes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- carob
carob
16,902 corpus weight
- catfishing
catfishing
16,898 corpus weight
- Celebes
Celebes
16,897 corpus weight
- ceremonially
ceremonially
16,896 corpus weight
- charioteer
charioteer
16,894 corpus weight
- chavs
chavs
16,892 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Celebes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Celebes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /sɪˈliːbiːz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Celebes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Celebes is uncommon English at frequency #83,104 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /sɪˈliːbiːz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Former name of Sulawesi.".
Celebes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is Celebes, spelled C-E-L-E-B-E-S.
Definition
- 1Former name of Sulawesi.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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