cellulaire

\se.ly.lɛʁ\

/\se.ly.lɛʁ\/ adj

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The verdict

“cellulaire” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,408. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,408
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est divisé en cellules.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cellulaire · cellulaire · French

cellulaire · rank #7,408 · 12 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,408
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cavalerie

Nearest frequency peer: cavalerie (-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 « cellulaire »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « cellulaire » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

cellulaire vs cellulite
80% similar
cellulaire vs cellulaires
91% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for cellulaire
PropertyValue
Headwordcellulaire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\se.ly.lɛʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#7,408
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cellulaire »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).cellulairese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « cavalerie » (#7,407), « cendres » (#7,409), « canaux » (#7,406). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cellulaire » est au #7,408. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around cellulaire (IPA \se.ly.lɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,408 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for cellulaire, with forms such as "ccellulaire", "cellluaire", and "cellualire". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "cellulite", "cellulaires", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cellulaire, spelled C-E-L-L-U-L-A-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est divisé en cellules.
  2. 2
    Qui a un rapport avec les cellules de la prison.
  3. 3
    Qui est constitué de cellules.
  4. 4
    Qui comporte des cellules, des alvéoles.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how cellulaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. «Si un train roule à 200 km/h, l'appareil pourrait traverser une station cellulaire toutes les 45 ou 60 secondes, ce qui représente une rotation rapide», explique Luke Kehoe, analyste industriel chez Ookla, une société de renseignement sur la connectivité.
  2. J’en ai vu d’autres : un jeune commerçant de la Casbah, Boualem Bahmed, dans la voiture cellulaire qui nous conduisait au tribunal militaire, me fit voir de longues cicatrices qu’il avait aux mollets.

This word in other languages

cellular(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccellulaire
  • cellluaire
  • cellualire
  • cellulaier
  • cellulairre
  • cellularie
  • celluliare
  • cellullaire
  • celulaire
  • celullaire
  • clelulaire
  • ecllulaire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cellulaire - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ccellulaire1cellluaire2cellualire2cellulaier2cellulairre1cellularie2celluliare2cellullaire1
Edit distance from "cellulaire"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cellulaire"?
"cellulaire" is spelled C-E-L-L-U-L-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \se.ly.lɛʁ\.
What does "cellulaire" mean?
As an adjective, "cellulaire" means: Qui est divisé en cellules.
What words are commonly confused with "cellulaire"?
"cellulaire" is commonly confused with "cellulite", "cellulaires". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cellulaire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cellulaire" is \se.ly.lɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cellulaire" come from?
"cellulaire" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cellulaire", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

décidément#7,428effectuées#7,433employeurs#7,435exceptions#7,437

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

cavalerie12 variantscomposer12 variantsbracelet12 variantscouverts12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list