Colombey
\kɔ.lɔ̃.bɛ\
The verdict
“Colombey” is uncommon French (frequency #57,834 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,834
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme abrégée du nom de Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, commune française située dans le département de la Haute-Marne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colombey · Colombey · French
Colombey · rank #57,834 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,834
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Collot
Nearest frequency peer: Collot (-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 « Colombey »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cofondateurs
cofondateurs
42,170 corpus weight
- cognent
cognent
42,169 corpus weight
- Collot
Collot
42,168 corpus weight
- Colombey
Colombey
42,167 corpus weight
- comorien
comorien
42,166 corpus weight
- comprometta…
compromettants
42,164 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Colombey » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Colombey |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔ̃.bɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,834 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Colombey » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Colombey is uncommon French at frequency #57,834 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kɔ.lɔ̃.bɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Colombey in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Colombey, spelled C-O-L-O-M-B-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Forme abrégée du nom de Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, commune française située dans le département de la Haute-Marne.
- 2Forme abrégée du nom de Colombey-les-Belles, commune française du département de Meurthe-et-Moselle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Colombey appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je ne parlai à personne pendant toute la traversée, les passagers étaient très peu nombreux et j’appris par la radio la mort de De Gaulle, grand chêne qu’on abat, foudroyé à Colombey par une rupture d’anévrisme.
Venant de Paris en hélicoptère, le fondateur de la Vᵉ République se posait sur la base de Saint-Dizier et gagnait ensuite Colombey en voiture.
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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