colombage
\kɔ.lɔ̃.baʒ\
The verdict
“colombage” is uncommon French (frequency #98,897 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,897
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mode de construction de bâtiment dans lequel les murs sont formés par une structure composée de diverses pièces en bois massif assemblées, souvent visibles en façade et entre lesquelles un rempliss...
Corpus desk
Index FR-colombage · colombage · French
colombage · rank #98,897 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,897
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colloïdal
Nearest frequency peer: colloïdal (-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 « colombage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- closets
closets
1,109 corpus weight
- cochonnet
cochonnet
1,107 corpus weight
- colloïdal
colloïdal
1,105 corpus weight
- colombage
colombage
1,104 corpus weight
- competent
competent
1,101 corpus weight
- concertent
concertent
1,100 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « colombage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colombage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔ̃.baʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #98,897 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colombage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colombage is uncommon French at frequency #98,897 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.lɔ̃.baʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mode de construction de bâtiment dans lequel les murs sont formés par une structure composée de diverses pièces en bois massif assemblées, souvent visibles en façade et entre lesquelles un rempliss...".
colombage doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is colombage, spelled C-O-L-O-M-B-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Mode de construction de bâtiment dans lequel les murs sont formés par une structure composée de diverses pièces en bois massif assemblées, souvent visibles en façade et entre lesquelles un remplissage en matériaux divers (torchis, plâtras, briques) est inséré pour fermer la paroi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colombage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle était solide bien que bâtie en planches légères comme un colombage.
À Pontrieux (le pont du Trieux), tout semble dissimulé : le port, derrière l’ancien moulin à marée ; les chemin des quarante lavoirs, disséminés entre les maisons de granit à colombages […] ; les échoppes autour de la « tour Eiffel » (une demeure en bois XVIᵉ siècle), etc.
Synonyms
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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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