Cologne
\kɔ.ˈlɔɲ\
The verdict
“Cologne” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,191. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,191
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville, commune, arrondissement et district d’Allemagne, située dans la Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cologne · Cologne · French
Cologne · rank #11,191 · 10 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,191
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coke
Nearest frequency peer: coke (-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 « Cologne »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- check
check
88,813 corpus weight
- châssis
châssis
88,812 corpus weight
- coke
coke
88,811 corpus weight
- Cologne
Cologne
88,810 corpus weight
- combinaisons
combinaisons
88,809 corpus weight
- concernée
concernée
88,807 corpus weight
What this shows « Cologne » 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 | Cologne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ˈlɔɲ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,191 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Cologne »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Cologne (IPA \kɔ.ˈlɔɲ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #11,191 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ville, commune, arrondissement et district d’Allemagne, située dans la Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cologne, with forms such as "ccologne", "cloogne", and "colgone". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "côlon", "colons", "coloré", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Cologne, spelled C-O-L-O-G-N-E.
Definition
- 1Ville, commune, arrondissement et district d’Allemagne, située dans la Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cologne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Marie de Médicis, reine de France (…) a été arrêtée prisonnière par le Roi son fils, et par la haine du cardinal de Richelieu qui lui devait sa fortune. Elle a été délaissée des autres rois ses enfants, qui n’ont osé même la recevoir dans leurs États, et elle est morte de misère, et presque de faim, à Cologne, après une persécution de dix années.
Je suis arrivé à Cologne après le soleil couché. Je me suis dirigé sur-le-champ vers la cathédrale. (…) Je me suis posé à moi-même ce principe incontestable : Mieux vaut habiter Deuz et voir Cologne qu’habiter Cologne et voir Deuz.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccologne
- cloogne
- colgone
- collogne
- cologen
- cologgne
- colognne
- colonge
- coolgne
- oclogne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cologne - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).