colite
\kɔ.lit\
The verdict
“colite” is uncommon French (frequency #73,024 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,024
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inflammation du côlon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colite · colite · French
colite · rank #73,024 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,024
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coding
Nearest frequency peer: coding (-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 « colite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cobras
cobras
26,980 corpus weight
- cocooning
cocooning
26,979 corpus weight
- coding
coding
26,978 corpus weight
- colite
colite
26,977 corpus weight
- complotent
complotent
26,975 corpus weight
- concaves
concaves
26,974 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « colite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lit\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colite is uncommon French at frequency #73,024 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.lit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Inflammation du côlon.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for colite, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is colite, spelled C-O-L-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Inflammation du côlon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how colite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une aérocolie diffuse, une colectasie et/ou un pneumopéritoine feront suspecter une colite de forme gangreneuse.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).