cella
\sɛ.la\
The verdict
“cella” is uncommon French (frequency #50,709 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,709
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Employé quelquefois en français pour désigner la nef des temples antiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cella · cella · French
cella · rank #50,709 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,709
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caïman
Nearest frequency peer: caïman (-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 « cella »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caribous
caribous
49,295 corpus weight
- Castex
Castex
49,294 corpus weight
- caïman
caïman
49,293 corpus weight
- cella
cella
49,292 corpus weight
- chacals
chacals
49,291 corpus weight
- chalons
chalons
49,290 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cella » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cella |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ.la\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cella » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cella is uncommon French at frequency #50,709 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛ.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cella has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cella, spelled C-E-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Employé quelquefois en français pour désigner la nef des temples antiques.
- 2Fruit à trois enveloppes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cella appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Car, en effet, Apollon est un dieu pur. Surtout l’Apollon Genitor sur l’autel duquel jamais aucune vie n’est offerte. Dans la cella du Temple, là où jadis le prêtre du dieu a tué Naptolème, brûle le Feu sacré que rien ne doit souiller, pas même le souffle de l’homme.
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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