Colone
\kɔ.lɔn\
The verdict
“Colone” is uncommon French (frequency #90,563 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,563
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Localité en périphérie d’Athènes où est né Sophocle qui y place l’action de sa pièce, Œdipe à Colone.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colone · Colone · French
Colone · rank #90,563 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,563
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coloriées
Nearest frequency peer: coloriées (+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 « Colone »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- colchide
colchide
9,441 corpus weight
- colley
colley
9,440 corpus weight
- Colone
Colone
9,438 corpus weight
- coloriées
coloriées
9,437 corpus weight
- combinait
combinait
9,436 corpus weight
- computation
computation
9,434 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Colone » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Colone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,563 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Colone » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Colone is uncommon French at frequency #90,563 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kɔ.lɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Localité en périphérie d’Athènes où est né Sophocle qui y place l’action de sa pièce, Œdipe à Colone.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Colone, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Colone, spelled C-O-L-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Localité en périphérie d’Athènes où est né Sophocle qui y place l’action de sa pièce, Œdipe à Colone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Colone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Œdipe à Colone.
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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