celleux
\sɛ.lø\
The verdict
“celleux” is uncommon French (frequency #89,510 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,510
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celles et ceux ; les personnes ou les choses dont on parle sans détermination de genre. — Note : Il est toujours suivi par une proposition relative ou par un syntagme prépositionnel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-celleux · celleux · French
celleux · rank #89,510 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,510
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH causons
Nearest frequency peer: causons (-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 « celleux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caudron
caudron
10,494 corpus weight
- causons
causons
10,492 corpus weight
- celleux
celleux
10,491 corpus weight
- Celsa
Celsa
10,490 corpus weight
- certa
certa
10,489 corpus weight
- chamaniques
chamaniques
10,488 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « celleux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | celleux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \sɛ.lø\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « celleux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
celleux is uncommon French at frequency #89,510 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed \sɛ.lø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
celleux has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is celleux, spelled C-E-L-L-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Celles et ceux ; les personnes ou les choses dont on parle sans détermination de genre. — Note : Il est toujours suivi par une proposition relative ou par un syntagme prépositionnel.
- 2Personnes non binaires dont on parle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how celleux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De plus le processus de discussion va empêcher celleux qui parlent bien ou fort de monopoliser la parole.
Il y avait les artistes, celleux qui pensent le monde et créent des nouveaux imaginaires, et nous, les non-artistes, qui gérons le monde plus rationnellement.
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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