colistier
\kɔ.lis.tje\
The verdict
“colistier” is uncommon French (frequency #69,697 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,697
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Candidat inscrit sur la même liste électorale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colistier · colistier · French
colistier · rank #69,697 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,697
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH collabora
Nearest frequency peer: collabora (+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 « colistier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cluse
cluse
30,308 corpus weight
- coconut
coconut
30,306 corpus weight
- colistier
colistier
30,304 corpus weight
- collabora
collabora
30,303 corpus weight
- collaient
collaient
30,302 corpus weight
- collectionn…
collectionneuse
30,301 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « colistier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colistier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lis.tje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colistier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colistier is uncommon French at frequency #69,697 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.lis.tje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Candidat inscrit sur la même liste électorale.".
colistier doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is colistier, spelled C-O-L-I-S-T-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Candidat inscrit sur la même liste électorale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colistier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Paul Ryan, candidat républicain à la vice-présidence des États-Unis et colistier de Mitt Romney, a mis l’accent sur la volonté des deux hommes de prendre leurs responsabilités et d’assumer des choix difficiles, dans son discours d’acceptation prononcé mercredi soir à la convention du parti à Tampa, en Floride.
Aucune importance qu’il ait, par la suite, laissé l’attaque du Capitole se dérouler sans répondre à l’appel de renfort des policiers débordés ni venir au secours de Mike Pence, ce loyal colistier qui avait eu l’effronterie de respecter la Constitution et de confirmer la victoire de son rival démocrate.
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); 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).