cellule

/\se.lyl\/ noun

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Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,824

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

cellule is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petite pièce d’habitation, espace clos. Pronounced \se.lyl\. It ranks #3,824 in French word frequency. Often confused with cellules and cellulose.

Key facts for cellule
PropertyValue
Headwordcellule
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\se.lyl\
Letters7
Frequency rank#3,824
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cellule in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cellule is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \se.lyl\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,824 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 21 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for cellule, with forms such as "ccellule", "celllue", and "celluel". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "cellules", "cellulose", "cellulite", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cellule, spelled C-E-L-L-U-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petite pièce d’habitation, espace clos.
  2. 2
    Chambrette qui abrite un religieux.
  3. 3
    Pièce exiguë pour l’habitation dans une institution, généralement destinée à l’enfermement.
  4. 4
    Cachot qui renferme un ou plusieurs prisonniers.
  5. 5
    Alvéole dans une ruche.
  6. 6
    Cavités de certains organes des végétaux ou des animaux enchâssées dans un tissu cellulaire.
  7. 7
    Unité morphologique ou fonctionnelle d’un ensemble organisé.
  8. 8
    Unité structurale et fonctionnelle constituant tout (unicellulaire) ou une partie (pluricellulaire) d’un être vivant, constituée d’un cytoplasme organisé autour d’un noyau et délimité par une membrane.
  9. 9
    Petit groupe spécialisé, dans une organisation.
  10. 10
    Unité de base du parti communiste, petit groupe de militants.
  11. 11
    Élément fondamental d’un motif musical.
  12. 12
    Élément fonctionnel d’une machine, d’un ordinateur, etc.
  13. 13
    Case, unité de base d’une feuille de calcul, d’un tableur.
  14. 14
    Unité de base du système atmosphérique.
  15. 15
    Capteur d’un tourne-disque, qui transforme les déplacements de son style, entrainé par le sillon du disque, en signal électrique.
  16. 16
    Partie d’une aile d’insecte.
  17. 17
    Zone géographique couverte par une antenne-relais de téléphonie mobile.
  18. 18
    Zone géographique élémentaire à laquelle est assigné, pour un service donné, un ensemble de fréquences non utilisables dans les zones proches.
  19. 19
    Paquet comprenant un nombre fixe d’éléments binaires dans le mode de transfert asynchrone.
  20. 20
    Face tridimensionnelle d’un polychore. 3-face.
  21. 21
    Structure mécanique d’un aéronef : fuselage (carlingue), voilure (ailes), nacelles des réacteurs ou moteurs, empennages, gouvernes de vol et trains d’atterrissage.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccellule,celllue,celluel,cellulle,celule,celulle,clelule,ecllule

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cellule

Misspelling Variants of "cellule"

ccellule8celllue7celluel7cellulle8celule6celulle7clelule7ecllule7
Misspelling Variants of "cellule"

Frequency rank: #3,824 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cellule"?
"cellule" is spelled C-E-L-L-U-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \se.lyl\.
What does "cellule" mean?
As a noun, "cellule" means: Petite pièce d’habitation, espace clos.
What words are commonly confused with "cellule"?
"cellule" is commonly confused with "cellules", "cellulose", "cellulite". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cellule"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cellule" is \se.lyl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cellule" come from?
"cellule" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.