colombier
\kɔ.lɔ̃.bje\
The verdict
“colombier” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,953. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,953
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bâtiment en forme de tour ronde ou carrée, où l’on loge et nourrit des pigeons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colombier · colombier · French
colombier · rank #30,953 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,953
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colombiens
Nearest frequency peer: colombiens (-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 « colombier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coder
coder
69,051 corpus weight
- collaborent
collaborent
69,050 corpus weight
- colombiens
colombiens
69,049 corpus weight
- colombier
colombier
69,048 corpus weight
- compactes
compactes
69,047 corpus weight
- comportemen…
comportementale
69,046 corpus weight
What this shows « colombier » 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 | colombier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔ̃.bje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #30,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « colombier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around colombier (IPA \kɔ.lɔ̃.bje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,953 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bâtiment en forme de tour ronde ou carrée, où l’on loge et nourrit des pigeons.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for colombier, with forms such as "ccolombier", "cloombier", and "collombier". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "colorier", "Colomiers", "colombe", 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, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is colombier, spelled C-O-L-O-M-B-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Bâtiment en forme de tour ronde ou carrée, où l’on loge et nourrit des pigeons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colombier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On estime à une centaine de francs la valeur de la colombine produite dans un colombier de 700 à 800 pigeons.
Pourquoi les pigeons ne s'égaraient-ils jamais ? Comment se dirigeaient-ils ? Le colombophile (flatté au fond) expliquait qu'ils avaient niché au colombier militaire de la citadelle et qu'ils retournaient là d'instinct.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolombier
- cloombier
- collombier
- colmobier
- colobmier
- colombbier
- colombeir
- colombierr
- colombire
- colomiber
- colommbier
- coolmbier
- oclombier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of colombier - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).