celeste
/səˈlɛst/noun
celeste is a noun meaning “Alternative form of celesta (“musical instrument”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-E-L-E-S-T-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears 1.5 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Celeste, the name). The plural of celeste is celestes.
What does celeste mean?
noun
- 1
Alternative form of celesta (“musical instrument”).
- 2
An organ stop, deliberately slightly out of tune to give an undulating sound.
- 3
Bleu celeste.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce celeste?
- US /səˈlɛst/
Celeste has 2 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-celeste.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of celeste
- celestes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is celeste?
Celeste appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,651st most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Celeste, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does celeste come from?
Borrowed from French céleste (“heavenly”), from Latin caelestis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).