celluloïd
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#84,621
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
celluloïd is aFrenchnoun. It means: Thermoplastique ressemblant à la corne et à l’ivoire, formé par un mélange de nitrocellulose et de camphre, parfois associé avec des matières pulvérulentes diversement colorées. Pronounced \se.ly.lɔ.id\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | celluloïd |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.ly.lɔ.id\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for celluloïd is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \se.ly.lɔ.id\. Corpus data places it at rank #84,621 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for celluloïd in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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.
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 celluloïd, spelled C-E-L-L-U-L-O-Ï-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Thermoplastique ressemblant à la corne et à l’ivoire, formé par un mélange de nitrocellulose et de camphre, parfois associé avec des matières pulvérulentes diversement colorées.
- 2Feuille transparente d’acétate de cellulose servant à créer les dessins animés.
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Frequency rank: #84,621 in French
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