colinéaire
\ko.li.ne.ɛʁ\
The verdict
“colinéaire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De même direction (se dit de vecteurs).
Corpus desk
Index FR-colineaire · colinéaire · French
colinéaire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colinéaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ko.li.ne.ɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
colinéaire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ko.li.ne.ɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "De même direction (se dit de vecteurs).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for colinéaire, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for 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 colinéaire, spelled C-O-L-I-N-É-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1De même direction (se dit de vecteurs).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colinéaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Deux vecteurs ⃑u et ⃑v sont colinéaires si et seulement s'il existe un scalaire k tel que ⃑v=k⃑u ou ⃑u=k⃑v.
Deux vecteurs colinéaires et de même module sont égaux ou opposés.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.