coléoptère
\kɔ.le.ɔp.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“coléoptère” is uncommon French (frequency #68,929 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,929
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie les insectes dont les élytres protègent les ailes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coleoptere · coléoptère · French
coléoptère · rank #68,929 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,929
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colmatage
Nearest frequency peer: colmatage (-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 « coléoptère »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clot
clot
31,076 corpus weight
- cocoon
cocoon
31,074 corpus weight
- colmatage
colmatage
31,073 corpus weight
- coléoptère
coléoptère
31,072 corpus weight
- commencerez
commencerez
31,071 corpus weight
- compliance
compliance
31,070 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coléoptère » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coléoptère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.le.ɔp.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coléoptère » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coléoptère is uncommon French at frequency #68,929 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ.le.ɔp.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qualifie les insectes dont les élytres protègent les ailes.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for coléoptère, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is coléoptère, spelled C-O-L-É-O-P-T-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qualifie les insectes dont les élytres protègent les ailes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how coléoptère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les insectes coléoptères.
This word in other languages
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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