colimaçon
\kɔ.li.ma.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“colimaçon” is uncommon French (frequency #64,323 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,323
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Escargot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colimacon · colimaçon · French
colimaçon · rank #64,323 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,323
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cogolin
Nearest frequency peer: Cogolin (-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 « colimaçon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clarificati…
clarifications
35,682 corpus weight
- Cléon
Cléon
35,680 corpus weight
- Cogolin
Cogolin
35,679 corpus weight
- colimaçon
colimaçon
35,678 corpus weight
- commissionn…
commissionnaire
35,677 corpus weight
- complexée
complexée
35,675 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « colimaçon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colimaçon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.li.ma.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,323 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colimaçon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colimaçon is uncommon French at frequency #64,323 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.li.ma.sɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for colimaçon, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is colimaçon, spelled C-O-L-I-M-A-Ç-O-N.
Definition
- 1Escargot.
- 2qui a une forme approchante de la spirale ou de la spire ; suite de circonvolutions ; forme hélicoïdale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colimaçon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les enfans détachent du rocher les patelles, les turbo, les buccins, espèces de colimaçons de mer.
Et puis après, qu’il neige, qu’il tonne, que les éléments se déchaînent, je m’en moque comme un colimaçon d’un chronomètre !
Synonyms
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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