colonne vertébrale
\kɔ.lɔn vɛʁ.te.bʁal\
The verdict
“colonne vertébrale” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Empilement des vertèbres, qui forment le support du dos des mammifères et sur lesquelles sont fixées les côtes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colonne vertébrale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔn vɛʁ.te.bʁal\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “colonne vertébrale” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for colonne vertébrale is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.lɔn vɛʁ.te.bʁal\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
colonne vertébrale doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is colonne vertébrale, spelled C-O-L-O-N-N-E- -V-E-R-T-É-B-R-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Empilement des vertèbres, qui forment le support du dos des mammifères et sur lesquelles sont fixées les côtes.
- 2Ce qui structure quelque chose.
- 3Symbole de quelqu’un qui fait face, qui entreprend, qui a de la volonté, du cran.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “colonne vertébrale”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-L-O-N-N-E- -V-E-R-T-É-B-R-A-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.