colère
\kɔ.lɛʁ\
The verdict
“colère” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,857. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,857
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réaction vive et parfois violente contre ce qui blesse un sentiment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colere · colère · French
colère · rank #1,857 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,857
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH co
Nearest frequency peer: co (-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 « colère »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cent
cent
98,147 corpus weight
- chefs
chefs
98,146 corpus weight
- co
co
98,145 corpus weight
- colère
colère
98,144 corpus weight
- condition
condition
98,143 corpus weight
- conduit
conduit
98,142 corpus weight
What this shows « colère » 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 | colère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « colère »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around colère (IPA \kɔ.lɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,857 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Réaction vive et parfois violente contre ce qui blesse un sentiment.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for colère, with forms such as "ccolère", "cloère", and "colere". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "core", "Corée", "colle", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is colère, spelled C-O-L-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Réaction vive et parfois violente contre ce qui blesse un sentiment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand ils arrivèrent, sa colère, à laquelle il fallait un prétexte pour s’exhaler, tomba sur eux avec l’éclat de la foudre.
Quand il voyait, sur le sable des allées un piquet de chat, il entrait aussitôt dans une colère affreuse.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolère
- cloère
- colere
- collère
- colrèe
- colèer
- colèrre
- coèlre
- oclère
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of colère - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).