colombe
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,575
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
colombe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pigeon (en général de couleur blanche). Pronounced \kɔ.lɔ̃b\. Often confused with combe and coloré.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colombe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔ̃b\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,575 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for colombe is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.lɔ̃b\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,575 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for colombe, with forms such as "ccolombe", "cloombe", and "collombe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "combe", "coloré", "colonne", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is colombe, spelled C-O-L-O-M-B-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pigeon (en général de couleur blanche).
- 2Tourterelle domestique.
- 3Nom vernaculaire normalisé de 7 genres de columbidés réunissant 47 espèces spécifiques aux basses latitudes de l’écozone néotropicale, tels qu’homologués par un comité international, incluant les genres Columbina, Leptotila, Geotrygon, etc. (voir la liste sous hyponymes), et ne possédant que peu de caractéristiques communes sauf la taille généralement petite et les mœurs plus terrestres qu’arboricoles.
- 4Emblème religieux représentant le Saint-Esprit.
- 5Viennoiserie qui adopte cette forme.
- 6Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Elle se blasonne comme le pigeon dont elle ne diffère pas vraiment (il y a donc risque de confusion) si ce n’est par le fait qu’elle est généralement représentée d’argent (même si d’autres couleurs sont possibles). Quand elle est utilisée pour symboliser la paix, elle est représentée tenant un rameau d’olivier dans le bec. À rapprocher de pigeon et tourterelle.
- 7Partisan de la paix.
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Also misspelled as: ccolombe,cloombe,collombe,colmobe,colobme,colombbe,colomeb,colommbe,coolmbe,oclombe
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Frequency rank: #16,575 in French
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