celebration
\ˌsɛl.ɪˈbɹeɪ.ʃən\
The verdict
“celebration” is uncommon French (frequency #57,816 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,816
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réjouissance, fête.
Corpus desk
Index FR-celebration · celebration · French
celebration · rank #57,816 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,816
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cations
Nearest frequency peer: cations (-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 « celebration »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caster
caster
42,188 corpus weight
- cations
cations
42,186 corpus weight
- celebration
celebration
42,185 corpus weight
- cessèrent
cessèrent
42,184 corpus weight
- chakras
chakras
42,183 corpus weight
- chalutiers
chalutiers
42,182 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « celebration » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | celebration |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˌsɛl.ɪˈbɹeɪ.ʃən\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #57,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « celebration » en français
Rare enough to double-check
celebration is uncommon French at frequency #57,816 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˌsɛl.ɪˈbɹeɪ.ʃən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for celebration 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is celebration, spelled C-E-L-E-B-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Réjouissance, fête.
- 2Célébration (religieuse ou d'autre cérémonie).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how celebration appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
That's great news! Let's buy some beer and have a celebration.
celebration of communion
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).