collage
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,910
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
collage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de coller. Action de coller du papier peint. Pronounced \kɔ.laʒ\. Often confused with colle and collée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | collage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.laʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for collage is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.laʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #24,910 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for collage, with forms such as "ccollage", "clolage", and "colage". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "colle", "collée", "courage", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is collage, spelled C-O-L-L-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de coller. Action de coller du papier peint.
- 2Composition faite d’éléments hétérogènes, qui constitue une œuvre originale.
- 3Imprégnation du papier de colle, pour qu’il ne boive pas, pour qu’il puisse recevoir l’écriture. Opération consistant à ajouter certaines substances à la pâte lors de la fabrication du papier pour lui conférer une certaine imperméabilité.
- 4Clarification du vin à l’aide d’une colle protéique (ichtyocolle, gélatine, blanc d’œuf), ou minérale comme la bentonite.
- 5Liaison irrégulière, à la colle.
- 6Assemblage de feuilles de papier à rouler destiné à la préparation d’un joint (généralement deux ou trois feuilles).
- 7Assemblage, au moyen d’outils numériques, d’éléments visuels ou sonores provenant de différentes sources.
- 8Fait de jouer contre une pièce adverse quand l’adversaire doit prendre davantage ailleurs.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccollage,clolage,colage,colalge,collaeg,collagge,collgae,ocllage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "collage"
Frequency rank: #24,910 in French
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