colonia
The verdict
“colonia” is uncommon French (frequency #62,149 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,149
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Colonie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colonia · colonia · French
colonia · rank #62,149 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,149
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH collaborait
Nearest frequency peer: collaborait (-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 « colonia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cofondé
cofondé
37,855 corpus weight
- Coimbra
Coimbra
37,854 corpus weight
- collaborait
collaborait
37,853 corpus weight
- colonia
colonia
37,852 corpus weight
- coloriages
coloriages
37,851 corpus weight
- colosses
colosses
37,850 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « colonia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colonia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colonia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colonia is uncommon French at frequency #62,149 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for colonia in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is colonia, spelled C-O-L-O-N-I-A.
Definition
- 1Colonie.
- 2Quartier (d’une ville).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colonia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Colonias españolas.
Colonias de pingüinos en Argentina.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).