Colomb
\kɔ.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“Colomb” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,153. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,153
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille génois, rendu célèbre par Christophe Colomb, explorateur génois au service de l'Espagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colomb · Colomb · French
Colomb · rank #18,153 · 8 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,153
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colliers
Nearest frequency peer: colliers (-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 « Colomb »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- CM2
CM2
81,851 corpus weight
- CNN
CNN
81,850 corpus weight
- colliers
colliers
81,849 corpus weight
- Colomb
Colomb
81,848 corpus weight
- comiques
comiques
81,847 corpus weight
- comparatif
comparatif
81,846 corpus weight
What this shows « Colomb » 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 | Colomb |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,153 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Colomb »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Colomb (IPA \kɔ.lɔ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #18,153 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille génois, rendu célèbre par Christophe Colomb, explorateur génois au service de l'Espagne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Colomb, with forms such as "ccolomb", "cloomb", and "colmob". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "color", "côlon", "colons", 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 Colomb, spelled C-O-L-O-M-B.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille génois, rendu célèbre par Christophe Colomb, explorateur génois au service de l'Espagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Colomb appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jacintha crut à ce qu’il disait sur sa parole, car l’œuvre était encore en lui, et il l’aima comme Christophe Colomb dut aimer le premier qui ne lui rit pas au nez lorsqu’il parla du nouveau monde qu’il avait deviné.
La directrice de l’EREA, Delphine Breysse-Colomb confiait : « Le réalisateur Martin Tronquart a laissé beaucoup de latitude aux élèves dans toutes les étapes de la réalisation. Ceux-ci ont pris des initiatives et apprécié la confiance que les adultes leur ont accordé. Cet état se retrouve dans le rendu du travail final ».
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolomb
- cloomb
- colmob
- colobm
- colombb
- colommb
- coolmb
- oclomb
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Colomb - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).