collocation
\kɔ.lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“collocation” is uncommon French (frequency #55,158 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,158
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action par laquelle on range des créanciers dans l’ordre suivant lequel ils doivent être payés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | collocation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #55,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “collocation” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
collocation is uncommon French at frequency #55,158 among 257,141 “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
- 1Action par laquelle on range des créanciers dans l’ordre suivant lequel ils doivent être payés.
- 2Ordre, rang dans lequel chaque créancier est colloqué.
- 3Somme qu’un créancier utilement colloqué a droit de toucher.
- 4Combinaison de mots caractéristiques, association fréquente de deux mots l’un à l’autre, de manière privilégiée.
- 5Type de calcul servant à évaluer les grandeurs intégrales.
- 6Hospitalisation sans consentement.
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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Using “collocation”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-L-L-O-C-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔ.lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.