colocation
\ko.lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“colocation” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,376. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,376
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Location faite par plusieurs personnes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colocation · colocation · French
colocation · rank #27,376 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,376
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Coleman
Nearest frequency peer: Coleman (-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 « colocation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- clandestini…
clandestinité
72,628 corpus weight
- coiffée
coiffée
72,627 corpus weight
- Coleman
Coleman
72,626 corpus weight
- colocation
colocation
72,625 corpus weight
- colza
colza
72,624 corpus weight
- computer
computer
72,623 corpus weight
What this shows « colocation » 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 | colocation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ko.lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #27,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « colocation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around colocation (IPA \ko.lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,376 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Location faite par plusieurs personnes.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for colocation, with forms such as "ccolocation", "cloocation", and "colcoation". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "coloration", "convocation", "colorations", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is colocation, spelled C-O-L-O-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Location faite par plusieurs personnes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colocation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Trois top-modèles vivaient en colocation dans l'appartement prêté par un couturier en vogue. Une quatrième débarqua de sa Russie natale, une longue liane de 180 cm, belle, de naturel parée.
Sept pourcent seulement des étudiants vivent en colocation. Celle-ci se développe très lentement en France.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolocation
- cloocation
- colcoation
- collocation
- coloaction
- colocaiton
- colocatino
- colocationn
- colocatoin
- colocattion
- coloccation
- coloctaion
- coolcation
- oclocation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of colocation - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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