collégien
\kɔ.le.ʒjɛ̃\
The verdict
“collégien” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,765. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,765
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élève d’un collège.
Corpus desk
Index FR-collegien · collégien · French
collégien · rank #36,765 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,765
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CNAM
Nearest frequency peer: CNAM (-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 « collégien »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cinématique
cinématique
63,239 corpus weight
- CMA
CMA
63,238 corpus weight
- CNAM
CNAM
63,237 corpus weight
- collégien
collégien
63,236 corpus weight
- coléoptères
coléoptères
63,235 corpus weight
- commencerai
commencerai
63,234 corpus weight
What this shows « collégien » 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 | collégien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.le.ʒjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #36,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « collégien »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around collégien (IPA \kɔ.le.ʒjɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,765 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Élève d’un collège.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for collégien, with forms such as "ccollégien", "clolégien", and "collegien". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "collègue", "collègues", "collégiens", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is collégien, spelled C-O-L-L-É-G-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Élève d’un collège.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how collégien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; ils avaient des casquettes à visière de cuir et à galon d’or, comme les collégiens ou les « séminards », et suivaient la mode en arborant des pantalons courts […].
— Tu prends quoi ? […]. — Un diabolo-menthe, répondit Philippe. Anne-Laure se retint de pouffer de rire. Une vraie boisson de collégien ! Elle fit un signe discret au serveur qui prit les commandes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccollégien
- clolégien
- collegien
- collgéien
- collégein
- colléggien
- collégienn
- collégine
- colléigen
- colégien
- colélgien
- ocllégien
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of collégien - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "collégien", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).