colmater
\kɔl.ma.te\
The verdict
“colmater” is uncommon French (frequency #51,968 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,968
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Combler un bas-fond, habituellement immergé, au moyen de terres prises dans des lieux plus élevés et que l’on fait charrier et déposer par les eaux elles-mêmes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colmater · colmater · French
colmater · rank #51,968 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,968
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coliques
Nearest frequency peer: coliques (-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 « colmater »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- codée
codée
48,036 corpus weight
- cognée
cognée
48,035 corpus weight
- coliques
coliques
48,034 corpus weight
- colmater
colmater
48,033 corpus weight
- combinatoire
combinatoire
48,032 corpus weight
- concédées
concédées
48,030 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « colmater » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colmater |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔl.ma.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colmater » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colmater is uncommon French at frequency #51,968 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔl.ma.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
colmater has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is colmater, spelled C-O-L-M-A-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Combler un bas-fond, habituellement immergé, au moyen de terres prises dans des lieux plus élevés et que l’on fait charrier et déposer par les eaux elles-mêmes.
- 2Combler par sédimentation, par dépôt progressif.
- 3Calfater, calfeutrer, empêcher un flux, boucher un trou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colmater appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Romains avaient un port à l'embouchure de L'Aa près de Saint-Omer, cet estuaire est aujourd'hui complètement ensablé, colmaté et cultivé.
Conduit qui se colmate.
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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