kolinsky
noun
kolinsky is a noun meaning “The Siberian weasel, Mustela sibirica” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-O-L-I-N-S-K-Y, and it appears about once in every 34 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of kolinsky is kolinskies.
What does kolinsky mean?
noun
- 1
The Siberian weasel, Mustela sibirica
- 2
The fur of the Siberian weasel
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of kolinsky
- kolinskies plural
- kolinski
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is kolinsky?
Kolinsky appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does kolinsky come from?
From Russian колинский (kolinskij, literally “from the Kola peninsula”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).