collaboration

\kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\

/\kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“collaboration” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,561. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,561
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
17
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de travailler de concert avec un ou plusieurs autres.

Corpus desk

Index FR-collaboration · collaboration · French

collaboration · rank #2,561 · 17 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,561
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 17 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH Christ

Nearest frequency peer: Christ (-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 « collaboration »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « collaboration » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

collaboration vs collaborative
85% similar
collaboration vs collaborations
93% similar
collaboration vs collaboratif
85% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for collaboration
PropertyValue
Headwordcollaboration
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\
Letters13
Frequency rank#2,561
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « collaboration »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).collaborationse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Christ » (#2,560), « colonel » (#2,562), « chacune » (#2,559). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « collaboration » est au #2,561. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 17 spelling variants around collaboration (IPA \kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,561 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for collaboration, with forms such as "ccollaboration", "clolaboration", and "colaboration". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "collaborative", "collaborations", "collaboratif", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is collaboration, spelled C-O-L-L-A-B-O-R-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de travailler de concert avec un ou plusieurs autres.
  2. 2
    Travaux et soins communs du mari et de la femme.
  3. 3
    Fait de travailler avec l’ennemi.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how collaboration appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. En 1873, le bryologue RENAUD publiait, en collaboration avec D. LALOY, un excellent Catalogue des plantes phanérogames et des Mousses observées jusqu'à cette époque dans le département de la Haute-Saône ; […].
  2. Elles étaient deux sœurs. J’allais les voir de temps à autre dans le coquet appartement de Passy où elles vivaient avec leur mère. Intelligentes, instruites, elles se destinaient à la littérature et préparaient en collaboration leur premier roman.

Synonyms

collaborativité

This word in other languages

collaboration(English)colaboración(Español)Zusammenarbeit(Deutsch)colaboração(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccollaboration
  • clolaboration
  • colaboration
  • colalboration
  • collabboration
  • collaboartion
  • collaboraiton
  • collaboratino
  • collaborationn
  • collaboratoin
  • collaborattion
  • collaborration
  • collabortaion
  • collabroation
  • collaobration
  • collbaoration
  • ocllaboration

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of collaboration - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ccollaboration1clolaboration2colaboration1colalboration2collabboration1collaboartion2collaboraiton2collaboratino2
Edit distance from "collaboration"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "collaboration"?
"collaboration" is spelled C-O-L-L-A-B-O-R-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\.
What does "collaboration" mean?
As a noun, "collaboration" means: Action de travailler de concert avec un ou plusieurs autres.
What words are commonly confused with "collaboration"?
"collaboration" is commonly confused with "collaborative", "collaborations", "collaboratif". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "collaboration"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "collaboration" is \kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "collaboration" come from?
"collaboration" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "collaboration", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

propriétaires#2,592représentants#2,446effectivement#2,419circonstances#2,814

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).

officiellement17 variantsperformance17 variantsspécialiste17 variantsnormalement17 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list