cell
\sɛl\
The verdict
“cell” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,954) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,954
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Feuille transparente d'acétate de cellulose servant à créer les dessins animés
Corpus desk
Index FR-cell · cell · French
cell · rank #18,954 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,954
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH catégorique
Nearest frequency peer: catégorique (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « cell »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- candidates
candidates
81,050 corpus weight
- caractériser
caractériser
81,049 corpus weight
- catégorique
catégorique
81,048 corpus weight
- cell
cell
81,047 corpus weight
- cerises
cerises
81,046 corpus weight
- chatons
chatons
81,045 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « cell » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | cell |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #18,954 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « cell »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cell is neighbouring look-alikes ("Cl", "ces", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \sɛl\. Frequency #18,954 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Feuille transparente d'acétate de cellulose servant à créer les dessins animés".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for cell, with forms such as "ccell", "cel", and "clel". 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, "Cl", "ces", "cet", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cell, spelled C-E-L-L.
Definition
- 1Feuille transparente d'acétate de cellulose servant à créer les dessins animés
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccell
- cel
- clel
- ecll
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cell - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).