colo
\ko.lo\
The verdict
“colo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,522) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,522
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Colonie de vacances.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colo · colo · French
colo · rank #22,522 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,522
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coffee
Nearest frequency peer: coffee (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « colo »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- coachs
coachs
77,482 corpus weight
- cobalt
cobalt
77,481 corpus weight
- coffee
coffee
77,480 corpus weight
- colo
colo
77,479 corpus weight
- Columbus
Columbus
77,478 corpus weight
- compétitive
compétitive
77,477 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « colo » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ko.lo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #22,522 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « colo »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for colo is neighbouring look-alikes ("cul", "con", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ko.lo\. Frequency #22,522 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Colonie de vacances.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for colo, with forms such as "ccolo", "cloo", and "collo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cul", "con", "cou", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is colo, spelled C-O-L-O.
Definition
- 1Colonie de vacances.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how colo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une colo tourne au fiasco
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolo
- cloo
- collo
- oclo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of colo - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).