célérité
\se.le.ʁi.te\
The verdict
“célérité” is uncommon French (frequency #51,394 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,394
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Promptitude dans l’exécution, activité rapide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-celerite · célérité · French
célérité · rank #51,394 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,394
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cyberpunk
Nearest frequency peer: cyberpunk (-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 « célérité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cyberattaqu…
cyberattaques
48,609 corpus weight
- cyberpunk
cyberpunk
48,608 corpus weight
- célérité
célérité
48,607 corpus weight
- céréaliers
céréaliers
48,606 corpus weight
- Cîteaux
Cîteaux
48,605 corpus weight
- Damour
Damour
48,604 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « célérité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | célérité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.le.ʁi.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « célérité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
célérité is uncommon French at frequency #51,394 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \se.le.ʁi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
célérité has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is célérité, spelled C-É-L-É-R-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Promptitude dans l’exécution, activité rapide.
- 2Vitesse d’une onde.
- 3Vitesse de propagation de la lumière dans le vide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how célérité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le nom d’Ivanhoé ne fut pas plutôt prononcé qu’il vola de bouche en bouche avec toute la célérité qu’il put recevoir de l’ardeur et de la curiosité.
Cependant, le pillage continuait avec une célérité et un ordre dans le désordre qui faisaient honneur aux connaissances pratiques des pirates.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).