Coleen or colleen?
coleen is a noun meaning “Alternative form of colleen”; colleen is a noun meaning “A girl”. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) colleen is about 10 times as common as coleen.
What is the difference between coleen and colleen?
| coleen | colleen | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun |
| Meaning | Alternative form of colleen | IrelandA girl IrelandA young single woman |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Forms | coleens | colleens |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | not recorded |
| In writing | about once in every 5 million words | 2.0 times per million words |
Sources: coleen and colleen in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of coleen and colleen
coleen
- 1
Alternative form of colleen
colleen
- 1
IrelandA girl
- 2
IrelandA young single woman
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, coleen or colleen?
coleen appears about once in every 5 million words; colleen 2.0 times per million words.
coleen about once in every 5 million wordscolleen 2.0 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).