collégialité
\kɔ.le.ʒja.li.te\
The verdict
“collégialité” is uncommon French (frequency #66,600 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,600
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui est collégial.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | collégialité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.le.ʒja.li.te\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #66,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “collégialité” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
collégialité is uncommon French at frequency #66,600 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.le.ʒja.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for collégialité, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is collégialité, spelled C-O-L-L-É-G-I-A-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractère de ce qui est collégial.
- 2Coopération réciproque entre les membres d'une communauté qui agissent comme des collègues.
This word in other languages
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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Using “collégialité”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-L-L-É-G-I-A-L-I-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔ.le.ʒja.li.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.