colonnes
\kɔ.lɔn\
The verdict
“colonnes” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,844. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,844
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Figure de jonglerie où les balles sont lancées verticalement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colonnes · colonnes · French
colonnes · rank #5,844 · 10 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,844
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH collaborateurs
Nearest frequency peer: collaborateurs (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « colonnes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chercheur
chercheur
94,160 corpus weight
- coins
coins
94,159 corpus weight
- collaborate…
collaborateurs
94,158 corpus weight
- colonnes
colonnes
94,157 corpus weight
- commissions
commissions
94,156 corpus weight
- condamnés
condamnés
94,155 corpus weight
What this shows « colonnes » 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).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colonnes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,844 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « colonnes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around colonnes (IPA \kɔ.lɔn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,844 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for colonnes, with forms such as "ccolonnes", "cloonnes", and "collonnes". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "colons", "connes", "colorés", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is colonnes, spelled C-O-L-O-N-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Figure de jonglerie où les balles sont lancées verticalement.
- 2Contenu, article d’un organe de presse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colonnes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un article dans nos colonnes, il y a une dizaine d’années, où il était écrit qu’il fallait peut-être « débibliothécariser » la bibliothèque comme il avait paru utile de déscolariser la lecture, nous avait valu maintes invectives et l’accusation de vouloir « brûler les bibliothèques ».
Ce jugement de l’auteur vient ainsi confirmer une opinion que nous avons souvent soutenue dans nos colonnes contre l’opposition faite à celle arme si perfectionnée ; ce qui n’empêche pas, sans doute, de réserver expressément l’avenir et les progrès qu’il apportera encore aux répétiteurs pour répondre mieux à leur idée, pour que toute la salve, par exemple…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolonnes
- cloonnes
- collonnes
- colnones
- colonens
- colones
- colonness
- colonnse
- coolnnes
- oclonnes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of colonnes - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).