céleri
\sɛl.ʁi\
The verdict
“céleri” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,489. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,489
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante herbacée aromatique bisannuelle potagère de la famille des Apiacées de nom scientifique Apium graveolens dont il existe trois cultigroupes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-celeri · céleri · French
céleri · rank #34,489 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,489
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cubique
Nearest frequency peer: cubique (-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 « céleri »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cruelles
cruelles
65,515 corpus weight
- créerait
créerait
65,514 corpus weight
- cubique
cubique
65,513 corpus weight
- céleri
céleri
65,512 corpus weight
- céréale
céréale
65,511 corpus weight
- dad
dad
65,510 corpus weight
What this shows « céleri » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | céleri |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛl.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #34,489 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « céleri »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around céleri (IPA \sɛl.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,489 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for céleri, with forms such as "ccéleri", "celeri", and "cléeri". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "celi", "celui", "chéri", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is céleri, spelled C-É-L-E-R-I.
Definition
- 1Plante herbacée aromatique bisannuelle potagère de la famille des Apiacées de nom scientifique Apium graveolens dont il existe trois cultigroupes.
- 2Céleri-branche (Apium graveolens var. dulce) dont on mange le pétiole et l'hypocotyle.
- 3Céleri-rave ou céleri boule ou Apium graveolens var. rapaceum dont on mange la tige tubérisée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how céleri appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À la limite des légumes et des plantes aromatiques, le céleri (Apium graveolens) a déjà été mentionné à propos de la forme tubéreuse qui descend de l’ache, plante vivace des montagnes européennes.
L’éminent gastronome Grimod de la Reynière fait chorus, qui déconseille le céleri aux timides, mais le recommande chaudement aux célibataires.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccéleri
- celeri
- cléeri
- céelri
- céleir
- célerri
- célleri
- célrei
- écleri
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of céleri - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).