colomba
\ko.ˈlom.ba\
The verdict
“colomba” is uncommon French (frequency #76,442 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,442
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Colombe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colomba · colomba · French
colomba · rank #76,442 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,442
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coil
Nearest frequency peer: coil (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « colomba »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cognes
cognes
23,561 corpus weight
- coil
coil
23,560 corpus weight
- colomba
colomba
23,559 corpus weight
- colorent
colorent
23,558 corpus weight
- coléreux
coléreux
23,557 corpus weight
- Comanches
Comanches
23,556 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « colomba » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colomba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ko.ˈlom.ba\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colomba » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colomba is uncommon French at frequency #76,442 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ko.ˈlom.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Colombe.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for colomba, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is colomba, spelled C-O-L-O-M-B-A.
Definition
- 1Colombe.
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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