célibat
\se.li.ba\
The verdict
“célibat” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,501. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,501
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État d’une personne qui n’est pas mariée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-celibat · célibat · French
célibat · rank #19,501 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,501
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cum
Nearest frequency peer: cum (-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 « célibat »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- crédibles
crédibles
80,503 corpus weight
- CSP
CSP
80,502 corpus weight
- cum
cum
80,501 corpus weight
- célibat
célibat
80,500 corpus weight
- dansent
dansent
80,499 corpus weight
- Darren
Darren
80,498 corpus weight
What this shows « célibat » 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 | célibat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.li.ba\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « célibat »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around célibat (IPA \se.li.ba\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,501 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "État d’une personne qui n’est pas mariée.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for célibat, with forms such as "ccélibat", "celibat", and "cléibat". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "climat", "Célia", "califat", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is célibat, spelled C-É-L-I-B-A-T.
Definition
- 1État d’une personne qui n’est pas mariée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how célibat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès l’Ite Missa est, la sacristine s’agita. Longue, plate et noire comme un staphyllin, desséchée par cinquante ans de célibat concentré, elle semble porter sur ses épaules étroites tout le deuil de la terre, expier tous les péchés du monde.
« Quand je pense, m’écriai-je, à tous ces prêtres qui gémissent en secret de leur célibat, alors que c’est le plus beau de leur histoire que d’échapper à cette chiennerie. Et encore les chiens, c’est plus propre. »
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccélibat
- celibat
- cléibat
- céilbat
- célbiat
- céliabt
- célibatt
- célibbat
- célibta
- céllibat
- éclibat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of célibat - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).