collent
\kɔl\
The verdict
“collent” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,140. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,140
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de coller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-collent · collent · French
collent · rank #23,140 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,140
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cold
Nearest frequency peer: cold (-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 « collent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cisco
cisco
76,864 corpus weight
- cold
cold
76,862 corpus weight
- collent
collent
76,861 corpus weight
- common
common
76,860 corpus weight
- commotion
commotion
76,859 corpus weight
- Comores
Comores
76,858 corpus weight
What this shows « collent » 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 | collent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #23,140 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « collent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around collent (IPA \kɔl\), averb. Corpus frequency is #23,140 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for collent, with forms such as "ccollent", "clolent", and "colelnt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "coller", "collet", "colles", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is collent, spelled C-O-L-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de coller.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de coller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how collent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cela étant affirmé, il reste toutefois conscient que « pour que la gestion directe soit possible et sorte des parlotes pour se traduire dans les actes, il faut que l’homme se débarrasse d’us et coutumes consacrés par les siècles, qu’il se désaliénise économiquement et surtout moralement afin qu’il soit en mesure de remplacer par de nouvelles valeurs celle…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccollent
- clolent
- colelnt
- colent
- collennt
- collentt
- colletn
- collnet
- ocllent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of collent - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).