Céline
\se.lin\
The verdict
“Céline” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,297. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,297
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-celine · Céline · French
Céline · rank #7,297 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,297
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cycliste
Nearest frequency peer: cycliste (-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 « Céline »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- croyant
croyant
92,707 corpus weight
- créent
créent
92,706 corpus weight
- cycliste
cycliste
92,705 corpus weight
- Céline
Céline
92,704 corpus weight
- dead
dead
92,703 corpus weight
- dernièrement
dernièrement
92,702 corpus weight
What this shows « Céline » 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 | Céline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \se.lin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Céline »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Céline (IPA \se.lin\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #7,297 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Céline, with forms such as "ccéline", "celine", and "cléine". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ciné", "clin", "celle", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Céline, spelled C-É-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Céline appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les grammairiens se sont passé le mot pendant des siècles pour « muettiser » les femmes, estime Céline Labrosse, auteur de Pour une grammaire non sexiste. Il faut donc « dégenriser », dit-elle, abolir la prépondérance du masculin.
Pour la septième semaine, Céline Parzys mettra à l’honneur le patrimoine culinaire de la Charente-Maritime.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccéline
- celine
- cléine
- céilne
- célien
- célinne
- célline
- célnie
- écline
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Céline - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).