collège

/\kɔ.lɛʒ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,697

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

collège is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chez les Romains, corporation. Pronounced \kɔ.lɛʒ\. It ranks #1,697 in French word frequency. Often confused with coller and collet.

Key facts for collège
PropertyValue
Headwordcollège
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.lɛʒ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#1,697
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of collège in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for collège is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.lɛʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,697 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for collège, with forms such as "ccollège", "clolège", and "college". 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, "coller", "collet", "coulée", 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 collège, spelled C-O-L-L-È-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Chez les Romains, corporation.
  2. 2
    Corps ou compagnies de personnes revêtues d’une même dignité.
  3. 3
    Instance de direction collective.
  4. 4
    Établissement universitaire de l’ancien régime.
  5. 5
    Établissement d’enseignement secondaire du premier cycle.
  6. 6
    Établissement catholique d’enseignement secondaire.
  7. 7
    Établissement universitaire étranger.
  8. 8
    Cégep, établissement de formation technique et pré-universitaire.
  9. 9
    Réunion des écoliers qui font leurs études dans un collège.
  10. 10
    Établissement d’enseignement secondaire supérieur. En usage dans les cantons de Fribourg, de Genève et du Valais uniquement.
  11. 11
    Période de la journée passée dans un collège.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccollège,clolège,college,collgèe,collèeg,collègge,colège,colèlge,ocllège

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for collège

Misspelling Variants of "collège"

ccollège8clolège7college7collgèe7collèeg7collègge8colège6colèlge7
Misspelling Variants of "collège"

Frequency rank: #1,697 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "collège"?
"collège" is spelled C-O-L-L-È-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.lɛʒ\.
What does "collège" mean?
As a noun, "collège" means: Chez les Romains, corporation.
What words are commonly confused with "collège"?
"collège" is commonly confused with "coller", "collet", "coulée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "collège"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "collège" is \kɔ.lɛʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "collège" come from?
"collège" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.