colline
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,382
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
colline is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petite élévation de terrain dont les pentes sont douces et arrondies. Pronounced \kɔ.lin\. It ranks #6,382 in French word frequency. Often confused with colonne and Cousine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for colline is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.lin\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,382 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 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 colline, with forms such as "ccolline", "cloline", and "colilne". 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, "colonne", "Cousine", "combiné", 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 colline, spelled C-O-L-L-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petite élévation de terrain dont les pentes sont douces et arrondies.
- 2Vallée.
- 3Division administrative de troisième niveau au Burundi (comprise dans une commune).
- 4Meuble représentant le relief du même nom dans les armoiries. Ce meuble est rarement utilisé car difficile à distinguer des autres reliefs. À rapprocher de mont, montagne et rocher.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccolline,cloline,colilne,collien,collinne,collnie,oclline
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for colline
Misspelling Variants of "colline"
Frequency rank: #6,382 in French
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