côlon
\ko.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“côlon” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,717. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,717
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui des gros intestins qui fait suite au cæcum.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colon · côlon · French
côlon · rank #29,717 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,717
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crétacé
Nearest frequency peer: crétacé (-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 « côlon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Cotonou
Cotonou
70,288 corpus weight
- couvrez
couvrez
70,286 corpus weight
- crétacé
crétacé
70,285 corpus weight
- côlon
côlon
70,284 corpus weight
- daube
daube
70,281 corpus weight
- Delaware
Delaware
70,280 corpus weight
What this shows « côlon » 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 | côlon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ko.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « côlon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around côlon (IPA \ko.lɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,717 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celui des gros intestins qui fait suite au cæcum.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for côlon, with forms such as "ccôlon", "clôon", and "colon". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "con", "cool", "cook", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is côlon, spelled C-Ô-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Celui des gros intestins qui fait suite au cæcum.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how côlon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les mots de « phénomènes de la nutrition », de « voies digestives », de « gros côlon », de « paresse du cœur » (paresse du cœur, Claudine !) rebondissent contre les lisses parois de ma chambre comme de beaux lépidoptères…
Est-ce la vessie ou le côlon qui vous tourmente ?
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccôlon
- clôon
- colon
- côllon
- côlno
- côlonn
- côoln
- ôclon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of côlon - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).