colonia

noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « colonia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for colonia
PropertyValue
Headwordcolonia
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#62,149
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « colonia » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).coloniatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « collaborait » (#62,148), « coloriages » (#62,150), « Coimbra » (#62,147). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « colonia » est au #62,149. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Colonie.
  2. 2
    Quartier (d’une ville).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how colonia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Colonias españolas.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "colonia"?
"colonia" is spelled C-O-L-O-N-I-A.
What does "colonia" mean?
As a noun, "colonia" means: Colonie.
What language does "colonia" come from?
"colonia" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "colonia", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list