colin

/\kɔ.lɛ̃\/ noun

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.

Key facts for colin
PropertyValue
Headwordcolin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.lɛ̃\
Letters5
Frequency rank#8,822
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of colin in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    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 commun (Merlucchius merlucchius), et à deux genres de poissons de l'ordre des perciformes (Dissostichus et Notothenia).
  2. 2
    Nom 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.
  3. 3
    Nom 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.
  4. 4
    Un des anciens noms vernaculaires du grand labbe (Stercorarius skua), un grand oiseau charadriiforme de la famille des stercorariidés.
  5. 5
    Berger jeune et amoureux dans les opéras-comiques.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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"

ccolin6cloin5coiln5colinn6colni5oclin5
Misspelling Variants of "colin"

Frequency rank: #8,822 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "colin"?
"colin" is spelled C-O-L-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.lɛ̃\.
What does "colin" mean?
As a noun, "colin" 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...
What words are commonly confused with "colin"?
"colin" is commonly confused with "con", "coll", "cols". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "colin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "colin" is \kɔ.lɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "colin" come from?
"colin" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.