colonisation

Name: colonisation, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\kɔ.lɔ.ni.za.sjɔ̃\

/\kɔ.lɔ.ni.za.sjɔ̃\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“colonisation” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,536. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,536
frequency rank, French: 8,609
“C” headwords: 17
tracked misspellings: 1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’envoyer sur un territoire éloigné, déjà occupé ou non, des personnes chargées d’occuper ce territoire, la colonie, généralement au détriment des autochtones.

Corpus desk

Index FR-colonisation · colonisation · French

colonisation · rank #5,536 · 17 variants · 1 confusable

FREQ-COMMON #5,536
LEN-MEGA 12 letters
VOW-6 6 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
VAR-HIGH 17 variants
BOOK-DENSE 8,609
PHOTO-FINISH collecte

Nearest frequency peer: collecte (-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.

clôture

94,468
coffre

94,467
collecte

94,466
colonisation

94,465
complot

94,464
conservateu…

94,462

What this shows « colonisation » 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).

colonisation vs canonisation

83% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for colonisation
Property	Value
Headword	colonisation
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\kɔ.lɔ.ni.za.sjɔ̃\
Letters	12
Frequency rank	#5,536
Misspellings tracked	17
Confusable pairs	1
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « colonisation »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).colonisationse place ici:

#5,536

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « collecte » (#5,535), « complot » (#5,537), « coffre » (#5,534). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « colonisation » est au #5,536. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 17 spelling variants around colonisation (IPA \kɔ.lɔ.ni.za.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,536 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for colonisation, with forms such as "ccolonisation", "cloonisation", and "collonisation". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "canonisation", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 colonisation, spelled C-O-L-O-N-I-S-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

1
Action d’envoyer sur un territoire éloigné, déjà occupé ou non, des personnes chargées d’occuper ce territoire, la colonie, généralement au détriment des autochtones.
2
De 1860 à 1940 environ, action politique consistant à envoyer des habitants des régions déjà habitées vers des régions nouvelles (Charlevoix, Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, pays d’en haut, Témiscouata, Abitibi, Témiscamingue) pour occuper le territoire québécois et contrer l'émigration.
3
Introduction d'une espèce dans un espace qui en était dépourvue.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

Présentées de la sorte, les tares de la colonisation pouvaient-elles faire horreur au colonisateur ? Pouvaient-elles l’interroger au point de le faire douter de lui-même ?
La Tunisie avait un conflit de frontières avec l’Algérie, puisqu’elle contestait le tracé frontalier hérité de la colonisation, et revendiquait la zone avoisinant la célèbre « borne 233 ».

This word in other languages

colonisation(English)colonización(Español)Kolonisation(Deutsch)colonização(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

ccolonisation
cloonisation
collonisation
colnoisation
coloinsation
coloniastion
colonisaiton
colonisatino
colonisationn
colonisatoin
colonisattion
colonissation
colonistaion
colonnisation
colonsiation
coolnisation
oclonisation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of colonisation - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "colonisation"

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 "colonisation"?

"colonisation" is spelled C-O-L-O-N-I-S-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.lɔ.ni.za.sjɔ̃\.

What does "colonisation" mean?

As a noun, "colonisation" means: Action d’envoyer sur un territoire éloigné, déjà occupé ou non, des personnes chargées d’occuper ce territoire, la colonie, généralement au détriment des autochtones.

What words are commonly confused with "colonisation"?

"colonisation" is commonly confused with "canonisation". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "colonisation"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "colonisation" is \kɔ.lɔ.ni.za.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "colonisation" come from?

"colonisation" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).

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