colophon
\kɔ.lɔ.fɔ̃\
The verdict
“colophon” is uncommon French (frequency #97,799 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,799
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Note finale d’un manuscrit ou d’un livre, comportant le nom de l’auteur, la date, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colophon · colophon · French
colophon · rank #97,799 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,799
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colonelle
Nearest frequency peer: colonelle (-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 « colophon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- collaborons
collaborons
2,205 corpus weight
- collected
collected
2,204 corpus weight
- colonelle
colonelle
2,203 corpus weight
- colophon
colophon
2,202 corpus weight
- comblait
comblait
2,201 corpus weight
- commerciali…
commercialisable
2,200 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « colophon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colophon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔ.fɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,799 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colophon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colophon is uncommon French at frequency #97,799 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.lɔ.fɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Note finale d’un manuscrit ou d’un livre, comportant le nom de l’auteur, la date, etc.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for colophon in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is colophon, spelled C-O-L-O-P-H-O-N.
Definition
- 1Note finale d’un manuscrit ou d’un livre, comportant le nom de l’auteur, la date, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colophon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le colophon des incunables est l’ancêtre de l’achevé d’imprimer moderne.
Lorsque le colophon ne comporte que l’année, le mot sana est écrit tout de suite après le texte.
Synonyms
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); 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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