collégiale

\kɔ.le.ʒjal\

/\kɔ.le.ʒjal\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows « collégiale » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

collégiale vs collégiales
91% similar
collégiale vs collégial
90% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for collégiale
PropertyValue
Headwordcollégiale
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.le.ʒjal\
Letters10
Frequency rank#18,685
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « collégiale »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).collégialese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « clore » (#18,684), « combinant » (#18,686), « comparez » (#18,687). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « collégiale » est au #18,685. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Église qui réunit un collège de chanoines ailleurs qu’au siège de l’évêché.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how collégiale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

ccollégiale1clolégiale2collegiale1collgéiale2collégaile2colléggiale1collégiael2collégialle1
Edit distance from "collégiale"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "collégiale"?
"collégiale" is spelled C-O-L-L-É-G-I-A-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.le.ʒjal\.
What does "collégiale" mean?
As a noun, "collégiale" means: Église qui réunit un collège de chanoines ailleurs qu’au siège de l’évêché.
What words are commonly confused with "collégiale"?
"collégiale" is commonly confused with "collégiales", "collégial". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "collégiale"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "collégiale" is \kɔ.le.ʒjal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "collégiale" come from?
"collégiale" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "collégiale", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list