celestial

//sɨ.lɨʃ.ˈtjaɫ// adj

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#13,237

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

celestial is anPortugueseadj. It means: celeste Pronounced /sɨ.lɨʃ.ˈtjaɫ/. Often confused with Celestino.

Key facts for celestial
PropertyValue
Headwordcelestial
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdj
IPA/sɨ.lɨʃ.ˈtjaɫ/
Letters9
Frequency rank#13,237
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of celestial in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for celestial is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sɨ.lɨʃ.ˈtjaɫ/. Corpus data places it at rank #13,237 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "celeste".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for celestial, with forms such as "ccelestial", "ceelstial", and "celesital". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Celestino", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is celestial, spelled C-E-L-E-S-T-I-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    celeste

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccelestial,ceelstial,celesital,celesstial,celestail,celestiall,celestila,celesttial,celetsial,cellestial,celsetial,cleestial,eclestial

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for celestial

Misspelling Variants of "celestial"

ccelestial10ceelstial9celesital9celesstial10celestail9celestiall10celestila9celesttial10
Misspelling Variants of "celestial"

Frequency rank: #13,237 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "celestial"?
"celestial" is spelled C-E-L-E-S-T-I-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is /sɨ.lɨʃ.ˈtjaɫ/.
What does "celestial" mean?
As an adj, "celestial" means: celeste
What words are commonly confused with "celestial"?
"celestial" is commonly confused with "Celestino". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "celestial"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "celestial" is /sɨ.lɨʃ.ˈtjaɫ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "celestial" come from?
"celestial" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.