celui

\sə.lɥi\

/\sə.lɥi\/ pron

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The verdict

“celui” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #209. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#209
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
15
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Utilisé pour remplacer la personne ou la chose dont on parle.

Corpus desk

Index FR-celui · celui · French

celui · rank #209 · 6 variants · 15 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #209
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH chaque

Nearest frequency peer: chaque (+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 « celui »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « celui » 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).

celui vs ceux
60% similar
celui vs club
60% similar
celui vs coli
60% similar

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

Key facts for celui
PropertyValue
Headwordcelui
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPronoun
IPA\sə.lɥi\
Letters5
Frequency rank#209
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « celui »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.celuise place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « chaque » (#210), « vos » (#207), « grande » (#211). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « celui » est au #209. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around celui (IPA \sə.lɥi\), apronoun. Corpus frequency is #209 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Utilisé pour remplacer la personne ou la chose dont on parle.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for celui, with forms such as "ccelui", "celiu", and "cellui". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "ceux", "club", "coli", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is celui, spelled C-E-L-U-I.

Definition

  1. 1
    Utilisé pour remplacer la personne ou la chose dont on parle.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Dans ce monde de pasteurs, la femme n'a nullement la vie serve qu'elle mène dans celui de chasse et de guerre.
  2. Celui qui vient n’est pas celui qu’on attend.

This word in other languages

that(English)aquel(Español)aquele(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccelui
  • celiu
  • cellui
  • ceuli
  • cleui
  • eclui

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of celui - 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.

ccelui1celiu2cellui1ceuli2cleui2eclui2
Edit distance from "celui"

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 "celui"?
"celui" is spelled C-E-L-U-I. The IPA pronunciation is \sə.lɥi\.
What does "celui" mean?
As a pronoun, "celui" means: Utilisé pour remplacer la personne ou la chose dont on parle.
What words are commonly confused with "celui"?
"celui" is commonly confused with "ceux", "club", "coli". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "celui"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "celui" is \sə.lɥi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "celui" come from?
"celui" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

femme#213reste#205cours#202aller#201

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

prix6 variantsétat6 variantslors6 variantsmort6 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list