collecter
\kɔ.lɛk.te\
The verdict
“collecter” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,992. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,992
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Récupérer, rassembler ou recueillir, en parlant de quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-collecter · collecter · French
collecter · rank #13,992 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,992
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cleveland
Nearest frequency peer: Cleveland (-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 « collecter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chelem
chelem
86,012 corpus weight
- chialer
chialer
86,011 corpus weight
- Cleveland
Cleveland
86,010 corpus weight
- collecter
collecter
86,009 corpus weight
- Colmar
Colmar
86,008 corpus weight
- commandée
commandée
86,007 corpus weight
What this shows « collecter » 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 | collecter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɛk.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #13,992 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « collecter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around collecter (IPA \kɔ.lɛk.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,992 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for collecter, with forms such as "ccollecter", "clolecter", and "colecter". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "collectif", "connecter", "collector", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 collecter, spelled C-O-L-L-E-C-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Récupérer, rassembler ou recueillir, en parlant de quelque chose.
- 2S’amasser dans une cavité, en parlant d’un liquide organique auparavant fluent ou diffus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how collecter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les trois ripoux avaient ainsi collecté toutes les informations dont ils avaient besoin.
Un papyrologue est de ce rythme-là. Pouvant passer des années à déchiffrer un papyrus, accumulant patiemment le savoir comme on collecte la rosée dans le désert, il est le contrepoids indispensable à notre société productiviste dopée à l’Internet.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccollecter
- clolecter
- colecter
- colelcter
- collceter
- colleccter
- collecetr
- collecterr
- collectre
- collectter
- colletcer
- ocllecter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of collecter - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "collecter", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).