collyre
\kɔ.liʁ\
The verdict
“collyre” is uncommon French (frequency #70,485 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,485
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Médicament sous la forme d’un liquide, d’une solution ou suspension stérile, aqueuse ou huileuse. Gouttes ophtalmiques destinées à l'instillation oculaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-collyre · collyre · French
collyre · rank #70,485 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,485
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH collantes
Nearest frequency peer: collantes (-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 « collyre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coire
coire
29,519 corpus weight
- collaborati…
collaboratives
29,518 corpus weight
- collantes
collantes
29,517 corpus weight
- collyre
collyre
29,516 corpus weight
- coloscopie
coloscopie
29,515 corpus weight
- comanche
comanche
29,514 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « collyre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | collyre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.liʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « collyre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
collyre is uncommon French at frequency #70,485 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.liʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Médicament sous la forme d’un liquide, d’une solution ou suspension stérile, aqueuse ou huileuse. Gouttes ophtalmiques destinées à l'instillation oculaire.".
No misspelling variants are generated for collyre in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is collyre, spelled C-O-L-L-Y-R-E.
Definition
- 1Médicament sous la forme d’un liquide, d’une solution ou suspension stérile, aqueuse ou huileuse. Gouttes ophtalmiques destinées à l'instillation oculaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how collyre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nitrate d'Argent.— Médicament employé comme antiseptique cautérisant sous forme de crayon (pierre infernale) et de collyre à 10 centigr. pour 100 gr. d'eau dans les maladies des yeux ; […].
Ou bien l’envie subite la prendra de faire une toilette complète à son enfant, de le peigner, de lui enduire les yeux de collyre, afin de le présenter dans cet état à son amant.
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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