collégiaux
\kɔ.le.ʒjo\
The verdict
“collégiaux” is uncommon French (frequency #94,630 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,630
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de collégial.
Corpus desk
Index FR-collegiaux · collégiaux · French
collégiaux · rank #94,630 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,630
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coignet
Nearest frequency peer: coignet (-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 « collégiaux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cochabamba
Cochabamba
5,374 corpus weight
- cockney
cockney
5,373 corpus weight
- coignet
coignet
5,372 corpus weight
- collégiaux
collégiaux
5,371 corpus weight
- comparera
comparera
5,370 corpus weight
- comptabilit…
comptabilités
5,368 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « collégiaux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | collégiaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.le.ʒjo\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #94,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « collégiaux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
collégiaux is uncommon French at frequency #94,630 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ.le.ʒjo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de collégial.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for collégiaux, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is collégiaux, spelled C-O-L-L-É-G-I-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de collégial.
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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