collégiale
\kɔ.le.ʒjal\
The verdict
“collégiale” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,685. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,685
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Église qui réunit un collège de chanoines ailleurs qu’au siège de l’évêché.
Corpus desk
Index FR-collegiale · collégiale · French
collégiale · rank #18,685 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,685
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clore
Nearest frequency peer: clore (-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 « collégiale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chancellerie
chancellerie
81,320 corpus weight
- clore
clore
81,317 corpus weight
- collégiale
collégiale
81,316 corpus weight
- combinant
combinant
81,315 corpus weight
- comparez
comparez
81,314 corpus weight
- compatibili…
compatibilité
81,313 corpus weight
What this shows « collégiale » 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 | collégiale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.le.ʒjal\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #18,685 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « collégiale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around collégiale (IPA \kɔ.le.ʒjal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,685 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Église qui réunit un collège de chanoines ailleurs qu’au siège de l’évêché.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for collégiale, with forms such as "ccollégiale", "clolégiale", and "collegiale". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "collégiales", "collégial", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is collégiale, spelled C-O-L-L-É-G-I-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Église qui réunit un collège de chanoines ailleurs qu’au siège de l’évêché.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how collégiale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il existait dans la collégiale de Huy plusieurs ouvrages de dinanderie ; si les fondeurs sont restés inconnus, nous possédons au moins quelques renseignements sur leurs travaux à l'époque où ceux—ci ont été affectés à l'église.
Mais l’église [Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Perpignan, en 1324] n’est encore qu’une collégiale, car la capitale religieuse est à Elne, où siégera l’évêque jusqu’en 1602.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccollégiale
- clolégiale
- collegiale
- collgéiale
- collégaile
- colléggiale
- collégiael
- collégialle
- collégilae
- colléigale
- colégiale
- colélgiale
- ocllégiale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of collégiale - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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