céleste
\se.lɛst\
The verdict
“céleste” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,688. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,688
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient au ciel, pris pour l’espace qui semble former une voûte au-dessus de la terre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-celeste · céleste · French
céleste · rank #8,688 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,688
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cyril
Nearest frequency peer: Cyril (-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 « céleste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- créativité
créativité
91,316 corpus weight
- cuit
cuit
91,315 corpus weight
- Cyril
Cyril
91,314 corpus weight
- céleste
céleste
91,313 corpus weight
- danois
danois
91,312 corpus weight
- demandons
demandons
91,311 corpus weight
What this shows « céleste » 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 | céleste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \se.lɛst\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,688 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « céleste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around céleste (IPA \se.lɛst\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,688 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for céleste, with forms such as "ccéleste", "celeste", and "cléeste". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "celte", "Colette", "célestin", 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, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is céleste, spelled C-É-L-E-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient au ciel, pris pour l’espace qui semble former une voûte au-dessus de la terre.
- 2Qui appartient au ciel, pris pour le séjour des bienheureux.
- 3Qui est divin, qui vient de Dieu.
- 4Ce qui est d’une nature excellente, supérieure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how céleste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors, je pose ma tête près de la tienne, je partage avec toi le céleste manteau que la lune nous donne.
Au siècle suivant, les astronomes ont observé une nouvelle classe d'objets célestes qu'ils ont qualifiés d'« astéroïdes », et non de « planétoïdes », en dépit du fait qu'ils orbitaient autour du Soleil comme les planètes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccéleste
- celeste
- cléeste
- céelste
- céleset
- célesste
- célestte
- céletse
- célleste
- célsete
- écleste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of céleste - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "céleste", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).