colin
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,822
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
colin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom vernaculaire ambigu donné vulgairement à plusieurs genres de poissons osseux de l'ordre des gadiformes, dont les différentes espèces de lieu (Theragra spp. et Pollachius spp.) et le merlu commu... Pronounced \kɔ.lɛ̃\. It ranks #8,822 in French word frequency. Often confused with con and coll.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,822 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for colin is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.lɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,822 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for colin, with forms such as "ccolin", "cloin", and "coiln". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "con", "coll", "cols", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is colin, spelled C-O-L-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire ambigu donné vulgairement à plusieurs genres de poissons osseux de l'ordre des gadiformes, dont les différentes espèces de lieu (Theragra spp. et Pollachius spp.) et le merlu commun (Merlucchius merlucchius), et à deux genres de poissons de l'ordre des perciformes (Dissostichus et Notothenia).
- 2Nom que l'on donne tout particulièrement au lieu noir dans certaines régions, et quand il est commercialisé sous forme surgelée ou en conserve sous l'appellation de colin lieu.
- 3Nom normalisé donné à huit genres regroupant 17 espèces d'oiseaux galliformes de la famille des odontophoridés, au plumage bigarré, souvent pourvus d'une huppe caractéristique, habitant les savanes, les prairies ou les forêts montagneuses clairsemées des zones tempérées, subtropicales et tropicales s'étendant des États-Unis jusqu'à la partie septentrionale de l'Amérique du Sud.
- 4Un des anciens noms vernaculaires du grand labbe (Stercorarius skua), un grand oiseau charadriiforme de la famille des stercorariidés.
- 5Berger jeune et amoureux dans les opéras-comiques.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccolin,cloin,coiln,colinn,colni,oclin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for colin
Misspelling Variants of "colin"
Frequency rank: #8,822 in French
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