colonne vertébrale
\kɔ.lɔn vɛʁ.te.bʁal\
The verdict
“colonne vertébrale” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Empilement des vertèbres, qui forment le support du dos des mammifères et sur lesquelles sont fixées les côtes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colonne-vertebrale · colonne vertébrale · French
colonne vertébrale · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
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Rare enough to double-check
colonne vertébrale is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.lɔn vɛʁ.te.bʁal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colonne vertébrale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’ours tomba à la renverse, la balle lui avait traversé la poitrine et brisé la colonne vertébrale.
Il y a immanquablement polyfractures : jambes, bassin, colonne vertébrale…
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.