collec
\kɔ.lɛk\
The verdict
“collec” is uncommon French (frequency #56,499 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,499
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Collection (réunion d'objets qu’on a rassemblés).
Corpus desk
Index FR-collec · collec · French
collec · rank #56,499 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,499
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coercitives
Nearest frequency peer: coercitives (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « collec »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- CME
CME
43,506 corpus weight
- cNp
cNp
43,505 corpus weight
- codées
codées
43,504 corpus weight
- coercitives
coercitives
43,503 corpus weight
- collec
collec
43,502 corpus weight
- comblent
comblent
43,500 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « collec » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | collec |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɛk\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « collec » en français
Rare enough to double-check
collec is uncommon French at frequency #56,499 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.lɛk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Collection (réunion d'objets qu’on a rassemblés).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for collec in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is collec, spelled C-O-L-L-E-C.
Definition
- 1Collection (réunion d'objets qu’on a rassemblés).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how collec appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand Mamie Jeannette, oncle Pierrot et tante Pierrette sont entrés dans la chambre pour dire qu’ils partaient, on était tous assis sur le tapis, le dos contre les lits, tranquillement plongés dans la lecture de la vieille collec' de Tintin.
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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