cell
/sɛl/
The verdict
“cell” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,678) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,678
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - célula
Corpus desk
Index PT-cell · cell · Portuguese
cell · rank #13,678 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,678
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH caldo
Nearest frequency peer: caldo (-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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “cell”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- bote
bote
86,326 corpus weight
- Bus
Bus
86,325 corpus weight
- caldo
caldo
86,324 corpus weight
- cell
cell
86,323 corpus weight
- chapecoense
chapecoense
86,321 corpus weight
- chifres
chifres
86,320 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “cell” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | cell |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɛl/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “cell”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cell is neighbouring look-alikes ("céu", "cem", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /sɛl/. Frequency #13,678 among 2,140 “C” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for cell, with forms such as "ccell", "cel", and "clel". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "céu", "cem", "clã", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is cell, spelled C-E-L-L.
Definition
- 1célula
- 2cela
- 3telefone celular
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccell
- cel
- clel
- ecll
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cell - 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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cell", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).