colonnades
\kɔ.lɔ.nad\
The verdict
“colonnades” is uncommon French (frequency #66,601 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,601
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de colonnade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colonnades · colonnades · French
colonnades · rank #66,601 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,601
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH collégialité
Nearest frequency peer: collégialité (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « colonnades »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coiffant
coiffant
33,403 corpus weight
- collégialité
collégialité
33,401 corpus weight
- colonnades
colonnades
33,400 corpus weight
- commandeurs
commandeurs
33,399 corpus weight
- commentary
commentary
33,398 corpus weight
- commerciali…
commercialisent
33,397 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « colonnades » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colonnades |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔ.nad\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #66,601 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colonnades » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colonnades is uncommon French at frequency #66,601 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.lɔ.nad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de colonnade.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for colonnades, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is colonnades, spelled C-O-L-O-N-N-A-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de colonnade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how colonnades appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfin il se coucha en murmurant une prière, et, s’étant endormi, la belle vallée du Graufthal lui fut rendue : il entendait le vague frisson du feuillage, et le merle noir chanter sous les sombres colonnades des sapins.
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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