collet

/\kɔ.lɛ\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#17,655

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

collet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie de l’habillement qui est autour du cou. Pronounced \kɔ.lɛ\. Often confused with coule and couler.

Key facts for collet
PropertyValue
Headwordcollet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.lɛ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#17,655
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of collet in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for collet is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.lɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,655 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for collet, with forms such as "ccollet", "clolet", and "colelt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "coule", "couler", "commet", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is collet, spelled C-O-L-L-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partie de l’habillement qui est autour du cou.
  2. 2
    Viande du cou du veau ou du mouton.
  3. 3
    Nœud coulant qui sert à prendre par le cou. Lacs à prendre du gibier.
  4. 4
    Zone de transition entre la racine d'une plante et sa tige.
  5. 5
    Zone étroite qui rappelle figurément un cou.
  6. 6
    Partie non filetée d’une vis, juste sous la tête.
  7. 7
    Limite entre la couronne et la racine.
  8. 8
    Abbé, car ces ecclésiastiques avaient pour habitude de porter un collet plus petit que les bourgeois.
  9. 9
    Partie du cuir d'un bovidé se trouvant en avant du croupon, au niveau du cou et comprenant parfois la tête.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccollet,clolet,colelt,colet,collett,collte,ocllet

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for collet

Misspelling Variants of "collet"

ccollet7clolet6colelt6colet5collett7collte6ocllet6
Misspelling Variants of "collet"

Frequency rank: #17,655 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "collet"?
"collet" is spelled C-O-L-L-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.lɛ\.
What does "collet" mean?
As a noun, "collet" means: Partie de l’habillement qui est autour du cou.
What words are commonly confused with "collet"?
"collet" is commonly confused with "coule", "couler", "commet". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "collet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "collet" is \kɔ.lɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "collet" come from?
"collet" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.