collégialité

\kɔ.le.ʒja.li.te\

/\kɔ.le.ʒja.li.te\/ noun

The verdict

“collégialité” is uncommon French (frequency #66,600 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#66,600
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui est collégial.

Corpus desk

Index FR-collegialite · collégialité · French

collégialité · rank #66,600 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #66,600
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH colonnades

Nearest frequency peer: colonnades (+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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « collégialité »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « collégialité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for collégialité
PropertyValue
Headwordcollégialité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.le.ʒja.li.te\
Letters12
Frequency rank#66,600
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « collégialité » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.collégialitétombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « colonnades » (#66,601), « coiffant » (#66,598), « commandeurs » (#66,602). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « collégialité » est au #66,600. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

collégialité is uncommon French at frequency #66,600 among 8,609 “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

  1. 1
    Caractère de ce qui est collégial.
  2. 2
    Coopération réciproque entre les membres d'une communauté qui agissent comme des collègues.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Collégialité d’une direction.
  2. La collégialité n’est cependant pas uniquement une règle de procédure.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "collégialité"?
"collégialité" is spelled C-O-L-L-É-G-I-A-L-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.le.ʒja.li.te\.
What does "collégialité" mean?
As a noun, "collégialité" means: Caractère de ce qui est collégial.
How do you pronounce "collégialité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "collégialité" is \kɔ.le.ʒja.li.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "collégialité" come from?
"collégialité" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list