Celsius

name

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The verdict

“Celsius” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,940. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#30,940
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-celsius · Celsius · French

Celsius · rank #30,940 · 10 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #30,940
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH Chambord

Nearest frequency peer: Chambord (+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 « Celsius »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « Celsius » 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).

Celsius vs celtics
57% similar
Celsius vs Cassius
71% similar

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

Key facts for Celsius
PropertyValue
HeadwordCelsius
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#30,940
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Celsius »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Chambord » (#30,941), « Cecilia » (#30,938), « Champigny » (#30,942). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « Celsius » est au #30,940. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around Celsius, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #30,940 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Celsius, with forms such as "ccelsius", "celisus", and "cellsius". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "celtics", "Cassius", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Celsius, spelled C-E-L-S-I-U-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. L’astronome et physicien suédois Anders Celsius est l’inventeur en 1742 d’une des premières échelles centigrades de température

This word in other languages

Celsius(English)Celsius(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccelsius
  • celisus
  • cellsius
  • celsisu
  • celsiuss
  • celssius
  • celsuis
  • ceslius
  • clesius
  • eclsius

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Celsius - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ccelsius1celisus2cellsius1celsisu2celsiuss1celssius1celsuis2ceslius2
Edit distance from "Celsius"

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 "Celsius"?
"Celsius" is spelled C-E-L-S-I-U-S.
What does "Celsius" mean?
As a proper noun, "Celsius" means: Nom de famille.
What words are commonly confused with "Celsius"?
"Celsius" is commonly confused with "celtics", "Cassius". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Celsius" come from?
"Celsius" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Cecilia#30,938castors#30,935Cassius#30,934caribou#30,933

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

caissons10 variantsbosquet10 variantscoyotes10 variantscroises10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list