Colleville
The verdict
“Colleville” is uncommon French (frequency #77,363 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,363
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colleville · Colleville · French
Colleville · rank #77,363 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,363
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH collectionnent
Nearest frequency peer: collectionnent (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Colleville »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Clothilde
Clothilde
22,642 corpus weight
- coincent
coincent
22,640 corpus weight
- collectionn…
collectionnent
22,639 corpus weight
- Colleville
Colleville
22,638 corpus weight
- colorie
colorie
22,637 corpus weight
- communiquai…
communiquaient
22,636 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Colleville » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Colleville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Colleville » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Colleville is uncommon French at frequency #77,363 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille français.".
Colleville has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 Colleville, spelled C-O-L-L-E-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Colleville appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mlle Thuillier avait trop souvent entendu dire à son frère : « Un tel est mort ! il n’a pas survécu deux ans à sa retraite ! », elle avait trop souvent entendu Colleville, l’ami intime de Thuillier, employé comme lui, plaisantant sur cette époque climatérique des bureaucrates, et disant : « Nous y viendrons aussi, nous autres !… » pour ne pas apprécier le…
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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