cell
/sɛl/
The verdict
“cell” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,901) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,901
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celda.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cell · cell · Spanish
cell · rank #27,901 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,901
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH causalidad
Nearest frequency peer: causalidad (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “cell”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- calamidad
calamidad
72,105 corpus weight
- causalidad
causalidad
72,101 corpus weight
- cell
cell
72,100 corpus weight
- Checoslovaq…
Checoslovaquia
72,097 corpus weight
- Cicerón
Cicerón
72,095 corpus weight
- ciervos
ciervos
72,094 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “cell” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cell |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɛl/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #27,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “cell”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cell is neighbouring look-alikes ("col", "ceo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /sɛl/. Frequency #27,901 among 8,288 “C” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for cell, with forms such as "ccell", "clel", and "ecll". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "col", "ceo", "ces", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is cell, spelled C-E-L-L.
Definition
- 1Celda.
- 2Célula.
- 3Mensaje o paquete de datos de longitud fija.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccell
- clel
- ecll
- sell
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cell - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cell", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).