coléreux
\kɔ.le.ʁø\
The verdict
“coléreux” is uncommon French (frequency #76,444 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,444
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est prompt à se mettre en colère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colereux · coléreux · French
coléreux · rank #76,444 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,444
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colorent
Nearest frequency peer: colorent (-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 « coléreux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coil
coil
23,560 corpus weight
- colomba
colomba
23,559 corpus weight
- colorent
colorent
23,558 corpus weight
- coléreux
coléreux
23,557 corpus weight
- Comanches
Comanches
23,556 corpus weight
- comer
comer
23,555 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coléreux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coléreux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.le.ʁø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coléreux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coléreux is uncommon French at frequency #76,444 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ.le.ʁø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est prompt à se mettre en colère.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for coléreux, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is coléreux, spelled C-O-L-É-R-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui est prompt à se mettre en colère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coléreux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Agrégé d'histoire du droit et de droit romain, autoritaire et un rien coléreux, il est fasciné par les méthodes policières.
Des chasseurs sous-marins évoquent souvent l’arrivée « coléreuse » des bars à l’appel de « l’agachon ».
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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