colle
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,557
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
colle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Matière adhérente qui permet de faire tenir l’un contre l’autre deux objets. Pronounced \kɔl\. It ranks #4,557 in French word frequency. Often confused with cool and côte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,557 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for colle is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔl\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,557 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for colle, with forms such as "ccolle", "clole", and "colel". 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, "cool", "côte", "come", 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 colle, spelled C-O-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Matière adhérente qui permet de faire tenir l’un contre l’autre deux objets.
- 2Examen oral en école préparatoire → voir khôlle.
- 3Question difficile, question dont on connaît la réponse pour tester les connaissances de quelqu’un.
- 4Retenue, punition au collège ou en lycée qui consiste à retenir l'élève après la fin des horaires de cours normaux, le jour même ou un autre jour.
- 5Mensonge, prétexte, fausse excuse.
- 6Groupe de vendangeurs.
- 7Substance protéique utilisé pour clarifier le vin, la bière ou autres liquides, par coagulation des impuretés.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccolle,clole,colel,oclle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for colle
Misspelling Variants of "colle"
Frequency rank: #4,557 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: