colonies
\kɔ.lɔ.ni\
The verdict
“colonies” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,644. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,644
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de colonie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colonies · colonies · French
colonies · rank #5,644 · 11 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,644
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cigarette
Nearest frequency peer: cigarette (-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 « colonies »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- caractérist…
caractéristique
94,361 corpus weight
- cigarette
cigarette
94,358 corpus weight
- colonies
colonies
94,357 corpus weight
- considérabl…
considérablement
94,356 corpus weight
- correct
correct
94,354 corpus weight
- craindre
craindre
94,353 corpus weight
What this shows « colonies » 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 | colonies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔ.ni\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,644 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « colonies »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around colonies (IPA \kɔ.lɔ.ni\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,644 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de colonie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for colonies, with forms such as "ccolonies", "cloonies", and "collonies". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "colons", "colonne", "cookies", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is colonies, spelled C-O-L-O-N-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de colonie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colonies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oh ! ce qu’il avait de troublant et de magique, dans mon enfance, ce simple mot : « les colonies », qui, en ce temps-là, désignait pour moi l’ensemble des lointains pays chauds, avec leurs palmiers, leurs grandes fleurs, leurs nègres, leurs bêtes, leurs aventures. De la confusion que je faisais de ces choses, se dégageait un sentiment d’ensemble absolumen…
Plusieurs de ces soldats assuraient que la Vendée n’était pas encore détruite ; que Charrette avait encore plus de vingt mille hommes à sa suite ; que, pour parvenir à purger ce pays, il n’y avait pas d’autre moyen que de déclimatiser tous les habitants de Vendée, et d’y envoyer en place de nouvelles colonies, car autrement nous n’en viendrions jamais à b…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolonies
- cloonies
- collonies
- colnoies
- coloines
- coloneis
- coloniess
- colonise
- colonnies
- coolnies
- oclonies
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of colonies - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).