colline
\kɔ.lin\
The verdict
“colline” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,382. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,382
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite élévation de terrain dont les pentes sont douces et arrondies.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colline · colline · French
colline · rank #6,382 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,382
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coller
Nearest frequency peer: coller (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “colline”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- charité
charité
93,622 corpus weight
- chasseur
chasseur
93,621 corpus weight
- coller
coller
93,620 corpus weight
- colline
colline
93,619 corpus weight
- conversion
conversion
93,617 corpus weight
- costa
costa
93,616 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “colline” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Where “colline” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around colline (IPA \kɔ.lin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,382 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for colline, with forms such as "ccolline", "cloline", and "colilne". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "colonne", "Cousine", "combiné", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 colline, spelled C-O-L-L-I-N-E.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colline appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous reçûmes l’ordre de côtoyer en le remontant le ruisseau de la Tourbe, qui arrose la plus triste vallée du monde, entre des collines basses, sans arbres et sans buissons.
[…] cette bande qui s’étend sur les villages de Brotte, Ailloncourt, Éhuns, Citers, etc., est représentée par des collines ou des croupes mollement ondulées de 300 mètres d’altitude moyenne […]
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolline
- cloline
- colilne
- collien
- collinne
- collnie
- oclline
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of colline - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "colline", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "colline". Here's where to go from here.
- "colline" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "colonne". View pair
- 7 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #6,382 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "C" letter cohort. C–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.