celan
[ˈselãn]
The verdict
“celan” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #97,143 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,143
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de celar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-celan · celan · Spanish
celan · rank #97,143 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,143
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH centelleantes
Nearest frequency peer: centelleantes (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “celan”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- catalogaron
catalogaron
2,865 corpus weight
- catamarán
catamarán
2,864 corpus weight
- cateterismo
cateterismo
2,863 corpus weight
- celan
celan
2,858 corpus weight
- centelleant…
centelleantes
2,857 corpus weight
- CFDI
CFDI
2,853 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “celan” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | celan |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈselãn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #97,143 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “celan” en español
Rare enough to double-check
celan is uncommon Spanish at frequency #97,143 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈselãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de celar.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for celan in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is celan, spelled C-E-L-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de celar.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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