Colette
\kɔ.let\
The verdict
“Colette” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,225. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,225
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colette · Colette · French
Colette · rank #14,225 · 8 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,225
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clocher
Nearest frequency peer: clocher (-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 « Colette »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- choquer
choquer
85,779 corpus weight
- cliente
cliente
85,778 corpus weight
- clocher
clocher
85,777 corpus weight
- Colette
Colette
85,776 corpus weight
- concentrée
concentrée
85,775 corpus weight
- concilier
concilier
85,774 corpus weight
What this shows « Colette » 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 | Colette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.let\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Colette »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Colette (IPA \kɔ.let\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #14,225 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Colette, with forms such as "ccolette", "cloette", and "coeltte". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "cotte", "comète", "culotte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Colette, spelled C-O-L-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Colette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était Colette Luchet, une élève des Langues O. Pas jolie, mais le regard lascif, la bouche large et bien meublée. Elle avait du succès auprès des garçons.
Colette la belette a un talent particulier Elle fait de la danse à claquettes Elle danse sur une planche dans sa maison souterraine Dans son petit village, elle est une vedette.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolette
- cloette
- coeltte
- colete
- coletet
- collette
- coltete
- oclette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Colette - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
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