Ceuta
\se.u.ta\
The verdict
“Ceuta” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,718. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,718
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville autonome espagnole, colonie sur la côte nord-est du Rif oriental marocain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ceuta · Ceuta · French
Ceuta · rank #37,718 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,718
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caïmans
Nearest frequency peer: caïmans (-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 « Ceuta »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- casillas
casillas
62,287 corpus weight
- caustique
caustique
62,285 corpus weight
- caïmans
caïmans
62,284 corpus weight
- Ceuta
Ceuta
62,283 corpus weight
- changeante
changeante
62,282 corpus weight
- charbonnier
charbonnier
62,280 corpus weight
What this shows « Ceuta » 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 | Ceuta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \se.u.ta\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #37,718 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Ceuta »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Ceuta (IPA \se.u.ta\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #37,718 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ville autonome espagnole, colonie sur la côte nord-est du Rif oriental marocain.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ceuta, with forms such as "cceuta", "cetua", and "ceuat". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cut", "ceux", "coût", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Ceuta, spelled C-E-U-T-A.
Definition
- 1Ville autonome espagnole, colonie sur la côte nord-est du Rif oriental marocain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ceuta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tous espèrent atteindre l’autre continent, soit en traversant le détroit de Gibraltar, notamment via les enclaves espagnoles de Ceuta et Melilla, soit en empruntant des barques motorisées (pateras ou feloukas) depuis les côtes atlantiques vers les îles Canaries (espagnoles).
Pendant ce temps, dans l’enclave nord-africaine espagnole de Ceuta, où environ la moitié de la population est musulmane, une manifestation pacifique a été organisée pour exhorter les autorités à repousser le couvre-feu de 22 h à 23 h pendant le ramadan.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cceuta
- cetua
- ceuat
- ceutta
- cueta
- ecuta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ceuta - 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.
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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