Colville

name

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"colville" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“Colville” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #47,538. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#47,538
frequency rank, English
5,599
“C” headwords
10
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Norman.

Corpus desk

Index EN-colville · Colville · English

Colville · rank #47,538 · 10 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #47,538
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,599
  • PHOTO-FINISH colloidal

Nearest frequency peer: colloidal (-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 “Colville”

Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword

corpus weight

What this shows “Colville” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Colville
PropertyValue
HeadwordColville
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechProper noun
Letters8
Frequency rank#47,538
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Colville”

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).Colvillelands here:

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

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Same rarity band neighbours include “colloidal” (#47,537), “coaxed” (#47,536), “conceptualize” (#47,540). Among 5,599 “C” headwords, “Colville” is #47,538. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around Colville, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #47,538 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Colville, with forms such as "ccolville", "cloville", and "colivlle". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Etymologically, the entry records: Scottish habitational surname of Norman origin, from the village of Colleville, in Normandy, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse kol (“coal”) + the French habitational suffix -ville. The correct English form is Colville, spelled C-O-L-V-I-L-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    A surname from Norman.
  2. 2
    A small town in Thames-Coromandel district, on the Coromandel Peninsula in Waikato region, New Zealand.
  3. 3
    An unincorporated community in Benton County, Arkansas, United States.
  4. 4
    An unincorporated community in Harrison County and Bourbon County, Kentucky, United States.
  5. 5
    A city, the county seat of Stevens County, Washington, United States.

Etymology

Scottish habitational surname of Norman origin, from the village of Colleville, in Normandy, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse kol (“coal”) + the French habitational suffix -ville.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccolville
  • cloville
  • colivlle
  • collville
  • colvile
  • colvilel
  • colvlile
  • colvville
  • covlille
  • oclville

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Colville - 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.

ccolville1cloville2colivlle2collville1colvile1colvilel2colvlile2colvville1
Edit distance from "Colville"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Colville"?
"Colville" is spelled C-O-L-V-I-L-L-E.
What does "Colville" mean?
As a proper noun, "Colville" means: A surname from Norman.
What are common misspellings of "Colville"?
Common misspellings include "ccolville", "cloville", "colivlle", "collville", "colvile". The correct spelling is "Colville".
What is the origin of the word "Colville"?
Scottish habitational surname of Norman origin, from the village of Colleville, in Normandy, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse kol (“coal”) + the French habitational suffix -ville. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Colville", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list