colombine
\kɔ.lɔ̃.bin\
The verdict
“colombine” is uncommon French (frequency #68,148 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,148
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fiente du pigeon et, par extension, des volailles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colombine · colombine · French
colombine · rank #68,148 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,148
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cohabite
Nearest frequency peer: cohabite (-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 « colombine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- codétenu
codétenu
31,855 corpus weight
- cohabite
cohabite
31,854 corpus weight
- colombine
colombine
31,853 corpus weight
- Comnène
Comnène
31,852 corpus weight
- complétez
complétez
31,851 corpus weight
- comptages
comptages
31,850 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « colombine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colombine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔ̃.bin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,148 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colombine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colombine is uncommon French at frequency #68,148 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.lɔ̃.bin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for colombine in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is colombine, spelled C-O-L-O-M-B-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Fiente du pigeon et, par extension, des volailles.
- 2Ancolie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colombine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les colombines ou résidus de poulailler sont des engrais de premier ordre.
On estime à une centaine de francs la valeur de la colombine produite dans un colombier de 700 à 800 pigeons . On peut admettre qu'un pigeon moyen produit dans le cours de l'année de 8 à 10 litres de cet engrais.
Synonyms
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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