Colbert
\kɔl.bɛʁ\
The verdict
“Colbert” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,380. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,380
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Patronyme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colbert · Colbert · French
Colbert · rank #17,380 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,380
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cod
Nearest frequency peer: cod (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Colbert »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- clash
clash
82,624 corpus weight
- climatisati…
climatisation
82,623 corpus weight
- cod
cod
82,622 corpus weight
- Colbert
Colbert
82,621 corpus weight
- collégiens
collégiens
82,620 corpus weight
- colorées
colorées
82,619 corpus weight
What this shows « Colbert » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Colbert |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɔl.bɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,380 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Colbert »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Colbert (IPA \kɔl.bɛʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #17,380 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Patronyme.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Colbert, with forms such as "ccolbert", "clobert", and "coblert". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "colère", "coller", "collet", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Colbert, spelled C-O-L-B-E-R-T.
Definition
- 1Patronyme.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolbert
- clobert
- coblert
- colbbert
- colberrt
- colbertt
- colbetr
- colbret
- colebrt
- collbert
- oclbert
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Colbert - 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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).