cellulite
\se.ly.lit\
The verdict
“cellulite” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,297. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,297
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Amas de graisse sous la peau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cellulite · cellulite · French
cellulite · rank #36,297 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,297
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cerisiers
Nearest frequency peer: cerisiers (+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 « cellulite »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- caritatif
caritatif
63,707 corpus weight
- Carrère
Carrère
63,706 corpus weight
- cellulite
cellulite
63,704 corpus weight
- cerisiers
cerisiers
63,703 corpus weight
- chais
chais
63,702 corpus weight
- Chambon
Chambon
63,701 corpus weight
What this shows « cellulite » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cellulite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.ly.lit\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #36,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cellulite »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around cellulite (IPA \se.ly.lit\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,297 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for cellulite, with forms such as "ccellulite", "cellluite", and "celluilte". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "cellulose", "cellule", "cellulaire", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cellulite, spelled C-E-L-L-U-L-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Amas de graisse sous la peau.
- 2Inflammation des tissus conjonctifs sous-cutanés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cellulite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Indépendamment des causes hormonales qui favorisent son apparition, la cellulite résulte d’un stockage de graisse dans les adipocytes et d’une rétention d’eau dans le derme et l'hypoderme.
Fléau de la beauté, ladite cellulite et son acolyte la peau d’orange, avec son aspect de cratères lunaires ou de texture d’agrume, sont un problème très féminin et une obsession qui bat son plein.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccellulite
- cellluite
- celluilte
- celluliet
- cellulitte
- cellullite
- cellultie
- celulite
- celullite
- clelulite
- ecllulite
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cellulite - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).