collages
\kɔ.laʒ\
The verdict
“collages” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,864. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,864
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de collage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-collages · collages · French
collages · rank #35,864 · 10 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,864
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH commissariats
Nearest frequency peer: commissariats (+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 « collages »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coagulation
coagulation
64,140 corpus weight
- Cobain
Cobain
64,139 corpus weight
- collages
collages
64,137 corpus weight
- commissaria…
commissariats
64,136 corpus weight
- complaisant
complaisant
64,135 corpus weight
- conciergerie
conciergerie
64,134 corpus weight
What this shows « collages » 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 | collages |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.laʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #35,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « collages »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around collages (IPA \kɔ.laʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,864 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de collage.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for collages, with forms such as "ccollages", "clolages", and "colages". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "colles", "collège", "collées", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is collages, spelled C-O-L-L-A-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de collage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how collages appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La recherche d'un maximum d’assujettissement à l’objet a conduit, on le sait, à l’abondante utilisation dans le roman moderne, à des « collages » de documents originaux, d’extraits de journaux incorporés au texte littéraire, tout autant que des peintures néo-futuristes incorporaient aux toiles des boîtes d’allumettes véritables, jouant ainsi une valeur fo…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccollages
- clolages
- colages
- colalges
- collaegs
- collagess
- collagges
- collagse
- collgaes
- ocllages
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of collages - 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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