collègue
\kɔ.lɛɡ\
The verdict
“collègue” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,743. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,743
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui exerce la même profession ou qui travaille dans la même organisation qu’une autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-collegue · collègue · French
collègue · rank #3,743 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,743
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH collective
Nearest frequency peer: collective (-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 « collègue »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cherchent
cherchent
96,261 corpus weight
- choisis
choisis
96,260 corpus weight
- collective
collective
96,259 corpus weight
- collègue
collègue
96,258 corpus weight
- constate
constate
96,257 corpus weight
- couvre
couvre
96,255 corpus weight
What this shows « collègue » 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 | collègue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɛɡ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « collègue »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around collègue (IPA \kɔ.lɛɡ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,743 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for collègue, with forms such as "ccollègue", "clolègue", and "collegue". 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, "colloque", "collègues", "collée", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is collègue, spelled C-O-L-L-È-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui exerce la même profession ou qui travaille dans la même organisation qu’une autre.
- 2Personne qui exerce une fonction rémunérée par l’État, par rapport à ceux qui exercent cette même fonction.
- 3Camarade, copain ou compagnon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how collègue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Là-dessus, je m’aperçus que deux de ses collègues, aux allures onctueuses de camériers secrets, étaient des Italiens.
Je me tourne vers mon collègue de la police strasbourgeoise.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccollègue
- clolègue
- collegue
- collgèue
- collègeu
- collèggue
- collèuge
- colègue
- colèlgue
- ocllègue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of collègue - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).