collège
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | collège |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɛʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Chez les Romains, corporation.
- 2Corps ou compagnies de personnes revêtues d’une même dignité.
- 3Instance de direction collective.
- 4Établissement universitaire de l’ancien régime.
- 5Établissement d’enseignement secondaire du premier cycle.
- 6Établissement catholique d’enseignement secondaire.
- 7Établissement universitaire étranger.
- 8Cégep, établissement de formation technique et pré-universitaire.
- 9Réunion des écoliers qui font leurs études dans un collège.
- 10Établissement d’enseignement secondaire supérieur. En usage dans les cantons de Fribourg, de Genève et du Valais uniquement.
- 11Période de la journée passée dans un collège.
This word in other languages
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"
Frequency rank: #1,697 in French
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "collège"?
What does "collège" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "collège"?
How do you pronounce "collège"?
What language does "collège" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: