celery
/ˈsɛləɹi/noun
celery is spelled C-E-L-E-R-Y: 6 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 19,077th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, celery means “A European herb (Apium graveolens) of the carrot family” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of celery is celeries.
How many letters and syllables are in celery?
| Letters | 6: C-E-L-E-R-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.1 times per million words; the 19,077th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How common is celery?
Celery appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 19,077th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce celery?
- UK /ˈsɛləɹi/
- US /ˈsɛləɹi/
- US /ˈsɛlɹi/
Celery has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-celery.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with celery
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of celery
- celeries plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does celery mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A European herb (Apium graveolens) of the carrot family.
- 2
The stalks of this herb eaten as a vegetable.
- 3
A yellow-green colour, like that of a celery.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Celery in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | céleri |
| German | Sellerie , Staudensellerie, Stangensellerie |
| Portuguese | aipo |
| Spanish | apio |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does celery come from?
From French céleri, from Lombard selleri, a plural of Latin selīnum, from Ancient Greek σέλῑνον (sélīnon). Displaced English march (“celery, smallage”) and smallage (“wild celery”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).