colley
\kɔ.lɛ\
The verdict
“colley” is uncommon French (frequency #90,561 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,561
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Race de chien de berger originaire d’Écosse et d'Angleterre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colley · colley · French
colley · rank #90,561 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,561
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colchide
Nearest frequency peer: colchide (-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 « colley »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- codent
codent
9,444 corpus weight
- coexiste
coexiste
9,443 corpus weight
- colchide
colchide
9,441 corpus weight
- colley
colley
9,440 corpus weight
- Colone
Colone
9,438 corpus weight
- coloriées
coloriées
9,437 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « colley » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colley |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colley » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colley is uncommon French at frequency #90,561 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for colley in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is colley, spelled C-O-L-L-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Race de chien de berger originaire d’Écosse et d'Angleterre.
- 2Synonyme de colley à poil long, variété à poil long et la plus courante de cette race de chien, souvent tricolore.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colley appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il grattait les flancs d'un colley de ses mains gantées ….
C’est un colley au poil gris, le choc lui a défoncé le thorax, son sang s’écoule sur le bas-côté, mais il n’est pas mort, il geint, on dirait la plainte d’un bébé.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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