colonna

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The verdict

“colonna” is uncommon German (frequency #61,393 among 20,081 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#61,393
frequency rank, German
20,081
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - bei Fahrzeugen: die Kolonne

Key facts for colonna
PropertyValue
Headwordcolonna
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters7
Frequency rank#61,393
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “colonna” sits in German frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). colonna lands here:

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

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

colonna is uncommon German at frequency #61,393 among 20,081 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for colonna in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is colonna, spelled C-O-L-O-N-N-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    bei Fahrzeugen: die Kolonne
  2. 2
    bei Zahlen: die Kolonne, die Reihe
  3. 3
    die Säule, die Stütze
  4. 4
    die Spalte, die Kolumne
  5. 5
    bei Naturelementen: die Wand
  6. 6
    Anatomie: colonna vertebrale: die Wirbelsäule

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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "colonna"?
"colonna" is spelled C-O-L-O-N-N-A. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "colonna" mean?
As a noun, "colonna" means: bei Fahrzeugen: die Kolonne
How do you pronounce "colonna"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "colonna" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "colonna" come from?
"colonna" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “colonna”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is C-O-L-O-N-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as […] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Other uncommon German words near this rank

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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list