colchide
\kɔl.ʃid\
The verdict
“colchide” is uncommon French (frequency #90,560 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,560
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Colchique, plante bulbeuse qui croît dans les prés humides, également cultivée dans les jardins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colchide · colchide · French
colchide · rank #90,560 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,560
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colley
Nearest frequency peer: colley (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « colchide »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- codent
codent
9,444 corpus weight
- coexiste
coexiste
9,443 corpus weight
- colchide
colchide
9,441 corpus weight
- colley
colley
9,440 corpus weight
- Colone
Colone
9,438 corpus weight
- coloriées
coloriées
9,437 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « colchide » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colchide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔl.ʃid\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colchide » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colchide is uncommon French at frequency #90,560 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔl.ʃid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Colchique, plante bulbeuse qui croît dans les prés humides, également cultivée dans les jardins.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for colchide, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is colchide, spelled C-O-L-C-H-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Colchique, plante bulbeuse qui croît dans les prés humides, également cultivée dans les jardins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colchide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les jardins fleur on sème & on plante les ambrettes, ancolies, anémones, argémones ; les campanules, chamétis chardon Roland, cyanus de toutes sortes, cyclamens, colchides, coquelicot & couronne Impériale.
L’EFFEUILLAISON, defoliatio, est la chute des feuilles, ordinairement annoncée par la floraison de la colchide.
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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