collie
/ˈkɒli/
"collie" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“collie” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #29,603. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,603
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of various breeds of dog originating in Scotland and England as sheepdogs
Corpus desk
Index EN-collie · collie · English
collie · rank #29,603 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,603
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH coercive
Nearest frequency peer: coercive (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “collie”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- coals
coals
70,401 corpus weight
- Cobain
Cobain
70,400 corpus weight
- coercive
coercive
70,399 corpus weight
- collie
collie
70,398 corpus weight
- commerciali…
commercialization
70,396 corpus weight
- conclusively
conclusively
70,395 corpus weight
What this shows “collie” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | collie |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɒli/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “collie”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around collie (IPA /ˈkɒli/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,603 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Any of various breeds of dog originating in Scotland and England as sheepdogs".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for collie, with forms such as "ccollie", "clolie", and "colie". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Coyle", "cookie", "Connie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Perhaps originally from coal, with reference to its colour; compare colly and collier. More at Wikipedia at collie § Name. The correct English form is collie, spelled C-O-L-L-I-E.
Definition
- 1Any of various breeds of dog originating in Scotland and England as sheepdogs
Etymology
Perhaps originally from coal, with reference to its colour; compare colly and collier. More at Wikipedia at collie § Name.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccollie
- clolie
- colie
- colile
- collei
- ocllie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of collie - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).