collocation

\kɔ.lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\

/\kɔ.lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“collocation” is uncommon French (frequency #55,158 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,158
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action par laquelle on range des créanciers dans l’ordre suivant lequel ils doivent être payés.

Corpus desk

Index FR-collocation · collocation · French

collocation · rank #55,158 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,158
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH collectée

Nearest frequency peer: collectée (-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 « collocation »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « collocation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for collocation
PropertyValue
Headwordcollocation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#55,158
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « collocation » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.collocationtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « collectée » (#55,157), « combative » (#55,159), « collaboratrices » (#55,156). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « collocation » est au #55,158. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

collocation is uncommon French at frequency #55,158 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for collocation, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is collocation, spelled C-O-L-L-O-C-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action par laquelle on range des créanciers dans l’ordre suivant lequel ils doivent être payés.
  2. 2
    Ordre, rang dans lequel chaque créancier est colloqué.
  3. 3
    Somme qu’un créancier utilement colloqué a droit de toucher.
  4. 4
    Combinaison de mots caractéristiques, association fréquente de deux mots l’un à l’autre, de manière privilégiée.
  5. 5
    Type de calcul servant à évaluer les grandeurs intégrales.
  6. 6
    Hospitalisation sans consentement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Procès-verbal de collocation.
  2. État de collocation.

This word in other languages

collocation(English)Kollokation(Deutsch)

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 "collocation"?
"collocation" is spelled C-O-L-L-O-C-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\.
What does "collocation" mean?
As a noun, "collocation" means: Action par laquelle on range des créanciers dans l’ordre suivant lequel ils doivent être payés.
How do you pronounce "collocation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "collocation" is \kɔ.lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "collocation" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list