Célèbes
\se.lɛb\
The verdict
“Célèbes” is uncommon French (frequency #93,656 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,656
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quatrième île d’Indonésie par sa superficie, elle est en forme de K.
Corpus desk
Index FR-celebes · Célèbes · French
Célèbes · rank #93,656 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,656
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH côtelette
Nearest frequency peer: côtelette (+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 « Célèbes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Curtin
Curtin
6,348 corpus weight
- CVT
CVT
6,347 corpus weight
- Célèbes
Célèbes
6,345 corpus weight
- côtelette
côtelette
6,344 corpus weight
- Daghestan
Daghestan
6,343 corpus weight
- dales
dales
6,342 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Célèbes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Célèbes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \se.lɛb\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #93,656 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Célèbes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Célèbes is uncommon French at frequency #93,656 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \se.lɛb\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Quatrième île d’Indonésie par sa superficie, elle est en forme de K.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Célèbes, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Célèbes, spelled C-É-L-È-B-E-S.
Definition
- 1Quatrième île d’Indonésie par sa superficie, elle est en forme de K.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Célèbes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour achever de me déterminer, M. Merkus ajouta qu’on lui gardait à Manado deux beaux babiroussas adultes, et qu’il les remettrait à ma disposition si je voulais l’accompagner à Célèbes, et qu’en outre il mettrait sur pied toute la population du pays pour procurer aux naturalistes tous les objets d’histoire naturelle qu’ils jugeraient dignes de leur atten…
Et pense que j’ai rencontré au large des Célèbes il y a dix ans, des caravelles arabes à la dérive, […].
This word in other languages
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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