colonie
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,229
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
colonie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Population installée loin de son lieu d’origine pour y prospérer, et qui maintient des liens privilégiés avec la métropole. Pronounced \kɔ.lɔ.ni\. It ranks #5,229 in French word frequency. Often confused with colons and cookie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colonie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔ.ni\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for colonie is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.lɔ.ni\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,229 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for colonie, with forms such as "ccolonie", "cloonie", and "collonie". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "colons", "cookie", "coloré", 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is colonie, spelled C-O-L-O-N-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Population installée loin de son lieu d’origine pour y prospérer, et qui maintient des liens privilégiés avec la métropole.
- 2Établissement fondé dans une contrée séparée de la métropole et restant sous sa dépendance.
- 3Groupement nombreux de gens d'un même pays plus ou moins lointain, installés durablement et restant entre eux dans le pays d’accueil.
- 4Établissement pénitentiaire qui a pour but de rééduquer les détenus en les occupant à des travaux agricoles.
- 5Groupe d’organismes vivants de même espèce vivant ensemble. S’emploie en particulier pour les fourmis, termites, castors et bactéries.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccolonie,cloonie,collonie,colnoie,coloine,colonei,colonnie,coolnie,oclonie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for colonie
Misspelling Variants of "colonie"
Frequency rank: #5,229 in French
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