colonial
\kɔ.lɔ.njal\
The verdict
“colonial” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,663. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,663
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la colonisation et aux colonies.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colonial · colonial · French
colonial · rank #10,663 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,663
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coeurs
Nearest frequency peer: coeurs (-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 « colonial »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- circonscrip…
circonscriptions
89,341 corpus weight
- civilisatio…
civilisations
89,340 corpus weight
- coeurs
coeurs
89,339 corpus weight
- colonial
colonial
89,338 corpus weight
- commerçant
commerçant
89,337 corpus weight
- communal
communal
89,336 corpus weight
What this shows « colonial » 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 | colonial |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔ.njal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,663 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « colonial »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around colonial (IPA \kɔ.lɔ.njal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,663 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif à la colonisation et aux colonies.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for colonial, with forms such as "ccolonial", "cloonial", and "collonial". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "colonie", "colonna", "colonies", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is colonial, spelled C-O-L-O-N-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la colonisation et aux colonies.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colonial appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus loin, Marx nous fait voir comment l’aurore des temps modernes fut marquée par la conquête de l'Amérique, l'esclavage des nègres et les guerres coloniales : […].
Faîtes une France très forte, et nul n'osera jamais convoiter ses colonies. Laissez la France se débiliter davantage et son empire colonial, d'une manière ou d'une autre, s'écroulera.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolonial
- cloonial
- collonial
- colnoial
- coloinal
- colonail
- coloniall
- colonila
- colonnial
- coolnial
- oclonial
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of colonial - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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