colombo
\kɔ.lɔ̃.bɔ\
The verdict
“colombo” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,615. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,615
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Racine d'une plante sarmenteuse (Menispermum dauricum), qui est amère et astringente.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colombo · colombo · French
colombo · rank #33,615 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,615
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH climate
Nearest frequency peer: climate (-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 « colombo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cil
cil
66,390 corpus weight
- clapet
clapet
66,389 corpus weight
- classent
classent
66,388 corpus weight
- climate
climate
66,387 corpus weight
- colombo
colombo
66,386 corpus weight
- conjugue
conjugue
66,383 corpus weight
What this shows « colombo » 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 | colombo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔ̃.bɔ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,615 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « colombo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around colombo (IPA \kɔ.lɔ̃.bɔ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,615 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for colombo, with forms such as "ccolombo", "cloombo", and "collombo". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "combo", "columbo", "Colomb", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is colombo, spelled C-O-L-O-M-B-O.
Definition
- 1Racine d'une plante sarmenteuse (Menispermum dauricum), qui est amère et astringente.
- 2Épice antillaise équivalente au cari indien.
- 3Ragoût préparé avec cette épice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colombo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le colombo rappelle le curry.
Mouin, j’avais préparé un ripage de concombres, un colombo, un gratin de christophines ; j’avais acheté du rosé et du mousseux…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolombo
- cloombo
- collombo
- colmobo
- colobmo
- colombbo
- colommbo
- colomob
- coolmbo
- oclombo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of colombo - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "colombo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).