collet

\kɔ.lɛ\

/\kɔ.lɛ\/ noun

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The verdict

“collet” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,655. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,655
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie de l’habillement qui est autour du cou.

Corpus desk

Index FR-collet · collet · French

collet · rank #17,655 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #17,655
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH collant

Nearest frequency peer: collant (-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 « collet »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « collet » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

collet vs coule
67% similar
collet vs couler
67% similar
collet vs commet
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « collet »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.colletse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « collant » (#17,654), « coloc » (#17,656), « collabore » (#17,653). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « collet » est au #17,655. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around collet (IPA \kɔ.lɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,655 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for collet, with forms such as "ccollet", "clolet", and "colelt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is collet, spelled C-O-L-L-E-T.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how collet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ce chapeau a pour le moins trois pieds de long ; les bords sont roulés en dessus, et font devant et derrière la tête une espèce de toit horizontal. Il est difficile d’inventer une forme plus baroque et plus fantastique : cela n’empêchait pas, en somme, le digne prêtre d’avoir la mine fort respectable et de se promener avec l’air d’un homme qui a la consci…
  2. Il me sembla que, devant cette attitude, l’agent allait rentrer sous terre, mais il n’en fut rien ; d’un mouvement vigoureux, il dégagea sa main, empoigna mon maître par le collet et le poussa devant lui avec brutalité.

Synonyms

collierregipiâs

This word in other languages

collar(English)Kragen(Deutsch)gola(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccollet
  • clolet
  • colelt
  • colet
  • collett
  • collte
  • ocllet

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of collet - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ccollet1clolet2colelt2colet1collett1collte2ocllet2
Edit distance from "collet"

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.

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?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "collet", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

coloc7 variantsburke7 variantsdater7 variantsbride7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list