cellular
\sɛ.ly.laʁ\
The verdict
“cellular” is uncommon French (frequency #92,533 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,533
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Type de tissu souple à grandes mailles, utilisé notamment pour des chemisettes et des vêtements de sport jusqu’aux années 1950.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cellular · cellular · French
cellular · rank #92,533 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,533
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cede
Nearest frequency peer: cede (-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 « cellular »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caracal
caracal
7,475 corpus weight
- careful
careful
7,472 corpus weight
- cassais
cassais
7,471 corpus weight
- cede
cede
7,469 corpus weight
- cellular
cellular
7,468 corpus weight
- charmilles
charmilles
7,464 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cellular » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cellular |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ.ly.laʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cellular » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cellular is uncommon French at frequency #92,533 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛ.ly.laʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Type de tissu souple à grandes mailles, utilisé notamment pour des chemisettes et des vêtements de sport jusqu’aux années 1950.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cellular, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cellular, spelled C-E-L-L-U-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1Type de tissu souple à grandes mailles, utilisé notamment pour des chemisettes et des vêtements de sport jusqu’aux années 1950.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cellular appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pantalon de flanelle d’un gris très clair, les chaussettes de fil blanc, la chemise de cellular, tout le costume sportif, en quatre jours, devenait une défroque mitraillée de taches, zébrée de vert végétal.
Thérèse voit encore le gilet de cellular, les bras nus musculeux ; cette peau blême et soudain le rouge cru du cou et de la face.
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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