colloïdale
\kɔ.lɔ.i.dal\
The verdict
“colloïdale” is uncommon French (frequency #95,719 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,719
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de colloïdal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colloidale · colloïdale · French
colloïdale · rank #95,719 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,719
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cofinancé
Nearest frequency peer: cofinancé (-2 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 « colloïdale »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- CODIS
CODIS
4,286 corpus weight
- cofinanceme…
cofinancement
4,285 corpus weight
- cofinancé
cofinancé
4,284 corpus weight
- colloïdale
colloïdale
4,282 corpus weight
- commenceras
commenceras
4,280 corpus weight
- commenterai
commenterai
4,279 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « colloïdale » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colloïdale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔ.i.dal\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #95,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colloïdale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colloïdale is uncommon French at frequency #95,719 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ.lɔ.i.dal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de colloïdal.".
colloïdale doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 colloïdale, spelled C-O-L-L-O-Ï-D-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de colloïdal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how colloïdale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’un papier plié il sortit en effet quelques légers copeaux de bois, auxquels adhérait une substance colloïdale, déjà durcie au contact de l’air.
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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