coles
\ˈko.les\
The verdict
“coles” is uncommon French (frequency #67,387 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,387
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de col.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coles · coles · French
coles · rank #67,387 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,387
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cogestion
Nearest frequency peer: cogestion (-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 « coles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coauteurs
coauteurs
32,617 corpus weight
- cochez
cochez
32,616 corpus weight
- cogestion
cogestion
32,615 corpus weight
- coles
coles
32,614 corpus weight
- coman
coman
32,613 corpus weight
- commettait
commettait
32,612 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈko.les\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coles is uncommon French at frequency #67,387 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈko.les\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de col.".
coles doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is coles, spelled C-O-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de col.
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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