Colone
\kɔ.lɔn\
The verdict
“Colone” is uncommon French (frequency #90,563 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,563
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Localité en périphérie d’Athènes où est né Sophocle qui y place l’action de sa pièce, Œdipe à Colone.
| 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) |
Where “Colone” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Colone is uncommon French at frequency #90,563 among 257,141 “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.
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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Using “Colone”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-L-O-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔ.lɔn\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.