colonie de vacances

\kɔ.lɔ.ni d(ə) va.kɑ̃s\

/\kɔ.lɔ.ni d(ə) va.kɑ̃s\/ noun

The verdict

“colonie de vacances” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
19
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Hébergement touristique organisé pour accueillir des enfants et adolescents en période de vacances scolaires.

Key facts for colonie de vacances
PropertyValue
Headwordcolonie de vacances
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.lɔ.ni d(ə) va.kɑ̃s\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “colonie de vacances” sits in French frequency

colonie de vacances falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for colonie de vacances is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.lɔ.ni d(ə) va.kɑ̃s\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Hébergement touristique organisé pour accueillir des enfants et adolescents en période de vacances scolaires.".

No misspelling variants are generated for colonie de vacances in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 de vacances, spelled C-O-L-O-N-I-E- -D-E- -V-A-C-A-N-C-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Hébergement touristique organisé pour accueillir des enfants et adolescents en période de vacances scolaires.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "colonie de vacances"?
"colonie de vacances" is spelled C-O-L-O-N-I-E- -D-E- -V-A-C-A-N-C-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.lɔ.ni d(ə) va.kɑ̃s\.
What does "colonie de vacances" mean?
As a noun, "colonie de vacances" means: Hébergement touristique organisé pour accueillir des enfants et adolescents en période de vacances scolaires.
How do you pronounce "colonie de vacances"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "colonie de vacances" is \kɔ.lɔ.ni d(ə) va.kɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “colonie de vacances”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is C-O-L-O-N-I-E- -D-E- -V-A-C-A-N-C-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \kɔ.lɔ.ni d(ə) va.kɑ̃s\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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