color
The verdict
“color” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,097. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,097
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-color · color · French
color · rank #17,097 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,097
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Clio
Nearest frequency peer: Clio (-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 « color »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Churchill
Churchill
82,907 corpus weight
- Clio
Clio
82,905 corpus weight
- color
color
82,904 corpus weight
- comportait
comportait
82,903 corpus weight
- compétentes
compétentes
82,902 corpus weight
- confondent
confondent
82,901 corpus weight
What this shows « color » 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 | color |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,097 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « color »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around color, anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,097 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Couleur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for color, with forms such as "ccolor", "cloor", and "collor". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cor", "cour", "cool", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is color, spelled C-O-L-O-R.
Definition
- 1Couleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how color appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
perdue a sa color
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolor
- cloor
- collor
- colorr
- colro
- coolr
- oclor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of color - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).