cellar
cel·lar/ˈsɛləɹ/noun, verb
cellar is spelled C-E-L-L-A-R, 2 syllables: cel·lar. The wrong spelling people search most is celler: about 150 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Cellar is a noun meaning “An enclosed underground space, often under a building, used for storage or shelter”. The plural of cellar is cellars.
How many letters and syllables are in cellar?
| Letters | 6: C-E-L-L-A-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: cel·lar |
| In writing | 4.0 times per million words; the 12,940th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, celler, about 150 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell cellar?
Cellar is spelled C-E-L-L-A-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for cellar in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is cellar?
Cellar appears 4.0 times per million words in written English, the 12,940th 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 cellar?
- UK /ˈsɛlə/
- US /ˈsɛləɹ/
Cellar has 2 syllables, split cel·lar in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-cellar.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with cellar
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: seller (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: seller.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with cellar?
11 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as cellar from its last stressed vowel (/ɛləɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: recall, caller.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of cellar
- cellars plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- cellaring participle, present
- cellared participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does cellar mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An enclosed underground space, often under a building, used for storage or shelter.
The farmhouse has several additions, added over many decades; it has three cellars, and one of them is older than the other two.
- 2
A wine collection, especially when stored in a cellar.
The insurance company valued his cellar at $27,000, largely on the strength of his bottles of 1972 Château Hypothetica.
- 3
slangLast place in a league or competition; some rank near last place.
The Tigers have been in the cellar all year long, and I'm tired of it.
- 4
UKUSA basement.
Most of my tools and hardware are in the garage, but I keep some tools in the cellar, too, mainly for convenience.
- 5
salt cellar
verb
- 1
To store (something, especially food or wine) in a cellar.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Cellar in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cave |
| German | Keller , einkellern |
| Portuguese | cave, porão , adega, garrafeira , lanterna, lanterninha |
| Spanish | sótano, furnia, sibil , bodega, cava |
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 cellar come from?
From Middle English celer, seler, from Anglo-Norman celer, Old French celier (modern cellier), from Late Latin cellārium, from Latin cella. Doublet of cellarium.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).