colloïdal
\kɔ.lɔ.i.dal\
The verdict
“colloïdal” is uncommon French (frequency #98,896 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,896
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à un colloïde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colloidal · colloïdal · French
colloïdal · rank #98,896 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,896
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colombage
Nearest frequency peer: colombage (+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 « colloïdal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clonés
clonés
1,110 corpus weight
- closets
closets
1,109 corpus weight
- cochonnet
cochonnet
1,107 corpus weight
- colloïdal
colloïdal
1,105 corpus weight
- colombage
colombage
1,104 corpus weight
- competent
competent
1,101 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « colloïdal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colloïdal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔ.i.dal\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #98,896 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colloïdal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colloïdal is uncommon French at frequency #98,896 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ.lɔ.i.dal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à un colloïde.".
colloïdal doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is colloïdal, spelled C-O-L-L-O-Ï-D-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif à un colloïde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colloïdal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les suspensions colloïdales sont intermédiaires entre les suspensions (particules de taille supérieure à 200 nm) et les solutions vraies (particules de taille inférieure à 2 nm).
Mac Lean au fond dans sa technique ne modifie que d’une façon minime celle de Bang, remplaçant, pour désalbuminer, le chlorure de potassium par l’hydrate de fer colloïdal.
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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