Colossians
/kəˈlɑʃənz/
"colossians" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Colossians” is uncommon English (frequency #50,434 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,434
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The twelfth book of the New Testament of the Bible, an epistle to the people of Colossae which is attributed to Paul the Apostle.
Corpus desk
Index EN-colossians · Colossians · English
Colossians · rank #50,434 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,434
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH colloquium
Nearest frequency peer: colloquium (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “Colossians”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cocking
cocking
49,571 corpus weight
- colloquium
colloquium
49,568 corpus weight
- Colossians
Colossians
49,567 corpus weight
- conger
conger
49,566 corpus weight
- coniferous
coniferous
49,565 corpus weight
- copulation
copulation
49,563 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Colossians” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Colossians |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /kəˈlɑʃənz/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Colossians” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Colossians is uncommon English at frequency #50,434 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /kəˈlɑʃənz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The twelfth book of the New Testament of the Bible, an epistle to the people of Colossae which is attributed to Paul the Apostle.".
Colossians has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is Colossians, spelled C-O-L-O-S-S-I-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1The twelfth book of the New Testament of the Bible, an epistle to the people of Colossae which is attributed to Paul the Apostle.
This word in other languages
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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