cella
/ˈsɛlə/
"cella" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cella” is uncommon English (frequency #84,079 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,079
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The central, enclosed part of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticos.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cella · cella · English
cella · rank #84,079 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,079
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH caul
Nearest frequency peer: caul (-2 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 “cella”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Castiglione
Castiglione
15,927 corpus weight
- catched
catched
15,926 corpus weight
- Catterick
Catterick
15,925 corpus weight
- caul
caul
15,924 corpus weight
- cella
cella
15,922 corpus weight
- CFG
CFG
15,920 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cella” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cella |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsɛlə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cella” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cella is uncommon English at frequency #84,079 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsɛlə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The central, enclosed part of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticos.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cella in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Latin cella. Doublet of cell and hall. The correct English form is cella, spelled C-E-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1The central, enclosed part of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cella appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Room by room, Sarrasine advances to the cella of the hermaphrodite god, veiled like Spenser's Venus.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin cella. Doublet of cell and hall.
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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