colonna
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,236
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
colonna is aFrenchnoun. It means: Colonne, pilier composé d’un fût cylindrique, d’un chapiteau et souvent d’une base ; il est ordinairement destiné à soutenir un entablement ou à décorer les édifices. Pronounced \ko.ˈlon.na\. Often confused with colons and corona.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colonna |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ko.ˈlon.na\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #37,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for colonna is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ko.ˈlon.na\. Corpus data places it at rank #37,236 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for colonna, with forms such as "ccolonna", "cloonna", and "collonna". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "colons", "corona", "colonne", 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 colonna, spelled C-O-L-O-N-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Colonne, pilier composé d’un fût cylindrique, d’un chapiteau et souvent d’une base ; il est ordinairement destiné à soutenir un entablement ou à décorer les édifices.
- 2Colonne, monument commémoratif en forme de colonne.
- 3Colonne, soutien.
- 4Colonne, tout ce qui se dresse ou s’allonge en forme de colonne.
- 5Colonne, tout ce qui se dresse ou s’allonge en forme de colonne.
- 6Colonne, tout ce qui se dresse ou s’allonge en forme de colonne.
- 7Colonne, quantité de matière fluide de figure cylindrique, qui a une hauteur et une base déterminées réellement ou par la pensée.
- 8Colonne, subdivision verticale de la page.
- 9Colonne, corps de troupes disposé dans un ordre qui a peu de front et beaucoup de profondeur. — Note : On le dit également en termes de tactique navale.
- 10Colonne, ensemble de personnes se déplaçant comme une colonne militaire.
- 11Colonne, chacune des 8 lignes verticales, désignées par les lettres a à h.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccolonna,cloonna,collonna,colnona,colona,colonan,coolnna,oclonna
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for colonna
Misspelling Variants of "colonna"
Frequency rank: #37,236 in French
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Nearby French words
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