collégial
\kɔ.le.ʒjal\
The verdict
“collégial” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,698. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,698
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à un collège de chanoines.
Corpus desk
Index FR-collegial · collégial · French
collégial · rank #29,698 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,698
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colisée
Nearest frequency peer: colisée (-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 « collégial »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- clins
clins
70,306 corpus weight
- cocos
cocos
70,305 corpus weight
- colisée
colisée
70,304 corpus weight
- collégial
collégial
70,303 corpus weight
- combinent
combinent
70,302 corpus weight
- comparateur
comparateur
70,301 corpus weight
What this shows « collégial » 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 | collégial |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.le.ʒjal\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #29,698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « collégial »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around collégial (IPA \kɔ.le.ʒjal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #29,698 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for collégial, with forms such as "ccollégial", "clolégial", and "collegial". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "collégien", "collégiale", "collégiales", 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 collégial, spelled C-O-L-L-É-G-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif à un collège de chanoines.
- 2Qualifie l’église d’un chapitre de chanoines sans siège épiscopal.
- 3Qui est assuré de façon collective par un conseil, un collège.
- 4Relatif à un établissement d’enseignement scolaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how collégial appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Redisons donc qu’il y avait à Doullens une église Saint-Martin au XIIᵉ siècle, et que cette église collégiale fut la première paroissiale de la ville.
Le parlement est un organe collégial.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccollégial
- clolégial
- collegial
- collgéial
- collégail
- colléggial
- collégiall
- collégila
- colléigal
- colégial
- colélgial
- ocllégial
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of collégial - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).