celtes
\sɛlt\
The verdict
“celtes” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,796. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,796
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de celte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-celtes · celtes · French
celtes · rank #23,796 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,796
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CDU
Nearest frequency peer: CDU (-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 « celtes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cambriolages
cambriolages
76,208 corpus weight
- CDG
CDG
76,207 corpus weight
- CDU
CDU
76,206 corpus weight
- celtes
celtes
76,205 corpus weight
- centième
centième
76,204 corpus weight
- child
child
76,203 corpus weight
What this shows « celtes » 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 | celtes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɛlt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #23,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « celtes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around celtes (IPA \sɛlt\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #23,796 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de celte.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for celtes, with forms such as "cceltes", "celets", and "celltes". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "clés", "cette", "culte", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is celtes, spelled C-E-L-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de celte.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cceltes
- celets
- celltes
- celtess
- celtse
- celttes
- cetles
- cletes
- ecltes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of celtes - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "celtes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).