colocataire
\kɔ.lɔ.ka.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“colocataire” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,736. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,736
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui vit en colocation, partageant une seule location.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colocataire · colocataire · French
colocataire · rank #27,736 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #27,736
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH collisions
Nearest frequency peer: collisions (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « colocataire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coexistence
coexistence
72,268 corpus weight
- collectionne
collectionne
72,267 corpus weight
- collisions
collisions
72,266 corpus weight
- colocataire
colocataire
72,265 corpus weight
- colères
colères
72,264 corpus weight
- commandait
commandait
72,263 corpus weight
What this shows « colocataire » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | colocataire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔ.ka.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #27,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « colocataire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around colocataire (IPA \kɔ.lɔ.ka.tɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,736 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for colocataire, with forms such as "ccolocataire", "cloocataire", and "colcoataire". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "colocataires", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is colocataire, spelled C-O-L-O-C-A-T-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui vit en colocation, partageant une seule location.
- 2Personne qui vit dans un immeuble de location en commun.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colocataire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Appelant à l’aide, elle est secourue par les deux colocataires du prévenu.
Claude commence le travail très tôt le matin et se couche également tôt le soir, alors que son colocataire suit un horaire décalé de plusieurs heures par rapport au sien. Le colocataire de Michel passe souvent la journée à la maison […].
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolocataire
- cloocataire
- colcoataire
- collocataire
- coloactaire
- colocaatire
- colocataier
- colocatairre
- colocatarie
- colocatiare
- colocattaire
- coloccataire
- coloctaaire
- coolcataire
- oclocataire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of colocataire - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).