célébrité

\se.le.bʁi.te\

/\se.le.bʁi.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“célébrité” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,464. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,464
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Solennité d'une fête, d'un évènement.

Corpus desk

Index FR-celebrite · célébrité · French

célébrité · rank #9,464 · 14 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #9,464
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH dance

Nearest frequency peer: dance (+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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « célébrité »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « célébrité » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

célébrité vs célébrités
90% similar
célébrité vs célèbre
56% similar
célébrité vs célébrée
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for célébrité
PropertyValue
Headwordcélébrité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\se.le.bʁi.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#9,464
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « célébrité »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.célébritése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « dance » (#9,465), « cuisse » (#9,462), « danses » (#9,466). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « célébrité » est au #9,464. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around célébrité (IPA \se.le.bʁi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,464 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for célébrité, with forms such as "ccélébrité", "celebrite", and "cléébrité". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "célébrités", "célèbre", "célébrée", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is célébrité, spelled C-É-L-É-B-R-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Solennité d'une fête, d'un évènement.
  2. 2
    Réputation qui s’étend au loin.
  3. 3
    Personne célèbre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how célébrité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Célébrité : l'avantage d'être connu de ceux que vous ne connaissez pas.
  2. Aucune période n’avait vu, avant les trente dernières années qui viennent de s’écouler, un aussi grand nombre d’individus parvenir, par toutes sortes de voies, à une célébrité spontanée.

Synonyms

gloirerenommée

This word in other languages

celebrity(English)celebridad(Español)Zelebrität(Deutsch)celebridade(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccélébrité
  • celebrite
  • cléébrité
  • célbérité
  • céllébrité
  • célébbrité
  • célébirté
  • célébritté
  • célébriét
  • célébrrité
  • célébrtié
  • célérbité
  • céélbrité
  • éclébrité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of célébrité - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ccélébrité1celebrite3cléébrité2célbérité2céllébrité1célébbrité1célébirté2célébritté1
Edit distance from "célébrité"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "célébrité"?
"célébrité" is spelled C-É-L-É-B-R-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \se.le.bʁi.te\.
What does "célébrité" mean?
As a noun, "célébrité" means: Solennité d'une fête, d'un évènement.
What words are commonly confused with "célébrité"?
"célébrité" is commonly confused with "célébrités", "célèbre", "célébrée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "célébrité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "célébrité" is \se.le.bʁi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "célébrité" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "célébrité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

disposant#9,469déclarant#9,473composant#9,452dépassent#9,476

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

caoutchouc14 variantsimmigrants14 variantsimmobiliers14 variantsimmobilière14 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list