céladon
\se.la.dɔ̃\
The verdict
“céladon” is uncommon French (frequency #83,756 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,756
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vert tendre. #83A697
Corpus desk
Index FR-celadon · céladon · French
céladon · rank #83,756 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,756
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cytochrome
Nearest frequency peer: cytochrome (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « céladon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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16,248 corpus weight
- cuvelier
cuvelier
16,247 corpus weight
- cytochrome
cytochrome
16,246 corpus weight
- céladon
céladon
16,245 corpus weight
- céphalée
céphalée
16,244 corpus weight
- céramistes
céramistes
16,243 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « céladon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | céladon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \se.la.dɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,756 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « céladon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
céladon is uncommon French at frequency #83,756 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \se.la.dɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for céladon in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is céladon, spelled C-É-L-A-D-O-N.
Definition
- 1Vert tendre. #83A697
- 2Platonique, gnangnan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how céladon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un fond de faïences bleu céladon.
… elle décline avec exactitude la gamme de couleurs, le vert céladon, le bleu pâle, l’or et le blanc de Chine, peu à peu s’emballe, front haut et joues enflammées, et lance le récit de cette nuit de peinture, de cette folle charrette, …
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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