collabo
\kɔ.la.bo\
The verdict
“collabo” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,313. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,313
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Collaborateur, collaboratrice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-collabo · collabo · French
collabo · rank #36,313 · 8 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,313
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coexister
Nearest frequency peer: coexister (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « collabo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- clac
clac
63,691 corpus weight
- clémente
clémente
63,690 corpus weight
- coexister
coexister
63,689 corpus weight
- collabo
collabo
63,688 corpus weight
- collabos
collabos
63,687 corpus weight
- colonels
colonels
63,686 corpus weight
What this shows « collabo » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | collabo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.la.bo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,313 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « collabo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around collabo (IPA \kɔ.la.bo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,313 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for collabo, with forms such as "ccollabo", "clolabo", and "colabo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "collant", "Collard", "collage", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is collabo, spelled C-O-L-L-A-B-O.
Definition
- 1Collaborateur, collaboratrice.
- 2Personne ayant collaboré, par toutes les formes possibles, avec l'ennemi de sa patrie en temps de guerre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how collabo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Non ! et ce n’est pas moi qui ai écrit cette phrase si chaude. Je l’ai lue un matin dans l’article d’un collabo. Je l’ai trouvée raide, mais je n’allais pas faire un erratum, sûr !
Le fait que Brasillach, lui-même ancien khâgneux de Louis-le-Grand, ait étudié sur les bancs mêmes où nous étions assis l’emportait absolument sur les appels abominables au meurtre des Juifs proférés par l’écrivain collabo dans Je suis partout et d’autres feuilles à la solde des nazis.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccollabo
- clolabo
- colabo
- colalbo
- collabbo
- collaob
- collbao
- ocllabo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of collabo - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).