collet
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | collet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Partie de l’habillement qui est autour du cou.
- 2Viande du cou du veau ou du mouton.
- 3Nœud coulant qui sert à prendre par le cou. Lacs à prendre du gibier.
- 4Zone de transition entre la racine d'une plante et sa tige.
- 5Zone étroite qui rappelle figurément un cou.
- 6Partie non filetée d’une vis, juste sous la tête.
- 7Limite entre la couronne et la racine.
- 8Abbé, car ces ecclésiastiques avaient pour habitude de porter un collet plus petit que les bourgeois.
- 9Partie du cuir d'un bovidé se trouvant en avant du croupon, au niveau du cou et comprenant parfois la tête.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccollet,clolet,colelt,colet,collett,collte,ocllet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "collet"
Frequency rank: #17,655 in French
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