colback
French, noun/kɔl.bak/
colback is spelled C-O-L-B-A-C-K (7 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written French, the 157,622nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Colback is a French masculine noun meaning “calpack” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ancienne coiffure militaire, bonnet de fourrure en forme de cône tronqué dont la partie supérieure était…”.
What does colback mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecalpack
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ancienne coiffure militaire, bonnet de fourrure en forme de cône tronqué dont la partie supérieure était plate. 2. Revers du col d’une veste.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of colback
- colbacks plural
- colbac
- colbaque
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce colback?
- /kɔl.bak/
- \kɔl.bak\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is colback in French?
colback appears about once in every 24 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).