colibris
\kɔ.li.bʁi\
The verdict
“colibris” is uncommon French (frequency #58,505 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,505
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de colibri.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colibris · colibris · French
colibris · rank #58,505 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,505
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH collectivisme
Nearest frequency peer: collectivisme (+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 « colibris »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cliquet
cliquet
41,500 corpus weight
- cléments
cléments
41,499 corpus weight
- codirecteur
codirecteur
41,498 corpus weight
- colibris
colibris
41,496 corpus weight
- collectivis…
collectivisme
41,495 corpus weight
- Colombiennes
Colombiennes
41,494 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « colibris » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colibris |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.li.bʁi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colibris » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colibris is uncommon French at frequency #58,505 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.li.bʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de colibri.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for colibris, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 colibris, spelled C-O-L-I-B-R-I-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de colibri.
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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