Marcellus
The verdict
“Marcellus” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #43,547 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #43,547
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Cognomen romain.
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 | Marcellus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #43,547 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Marcellus” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Marcellus is 9 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #43,547 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Marcellus, with forms such as "amrcellus", "macrellus", and "marccellus". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Marcelle", "Marcello", "Marcellin", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Marcellus, spelled M-A-R-C-E-L-L-U-S.
Definition
- 1Cognomen romain.
- 2Branche des Claudii.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amrcellus,macrellus,marccellus,marcellsu,marcelluss,marceluls,marcelus,marclelus,marecllus,marrcellus,mmarcellus,mracellus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Marcellus - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “Marcellus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-R-C-E-L-L-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “Marcelle” - see the side-by-side comparison. Marcellus vs Marcelle
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.