celu
\ˈt͡se.lu\
The verdict
“celu” is uncommon French (frequency #82,778 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,778
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Volitif du verbe celi (transitif).
Corpus desk
Index FR-celu · celu · French
celu · rank #82,778 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,778
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH ceinte
Nearest frequency peer: ceinte (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « celu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- catéchumènes
catéchumènes
17,226 corpus weight
- ceder
ceder
17,225 corpus weight
- ceinte
ceinte
17,224 corpus weight
- celu
celu
17,223 corpus weight
- centrifugeu…
centrifugeuses
17,222 corpus weight
- Chamalières
Chamalières
17,221 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « celu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | celu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈt͡se.lu\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #82,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « celu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
celu is uncommon French at frequency #82,778 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈt͡se.lu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Volitif du verbe celi (transitif).".
Zero misspellings are on record for celu in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is celu, spelled C-E-L-U.
Definition
- 1Volitif du verbe celi (transitif).
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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