coloration
\kɔ.lɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“coloration” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,750. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,750
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de colorer ; fait de devenir coloré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coloration · coloration · French
coloration · rank #13,750 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,750
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Clarke
Nearest frequency peer: Clarke (-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 « coloration »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- caresse
caresse
86,254 corpus weight
- choisies
choisies
86,253 corpus weight
- Clarke
Clarke
86,252 corpus weight
- coloration
coloration
86,251 corpus weight
- commencera
commencera
86,250 corpus weight
- commode
commode
86,249 corpus weight
What this shows « coloration » 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 | coloration |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #13,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « coloration »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around coloration (IPA \kɔ.lɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,750 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for coloration, with forms such as "ccoloration", "clooration", and "colloration". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "corporation", "colorations", "collation", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is coloration, spelled C-O-L-O-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de colorer ; fait de devenir coloré.
- 2Fait de se teindre les cheveux ; teinte que l’on donne à ses cheveux.
- 3Changement de couleur du bois sans dégradation de ses qualités mécaniques.
- 4État de ce qui est coloré ; teinte, couleur.
- 5Dimension, aspect, tournure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coloration appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’exploitation du bismuth, et surtout du cobalt pour la coloration en bleu des verres et faïences, ralentit le déclin pendant la seconde moitié du xvie siècle.
La technique de coloration des agates est connue depuis l’Antiquité, mais aujourd’hui on utilise des colorants inorganiques aux teintes plus vives et qui ne palissent pas à la lumière.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccoloration
- clooration
- colloration
- coloartion
- coloraiton
- coloratino
- colorationn
- coloratoin
- colorattion
- colorration
- colortaion
- colroation
- coolration
- ocloration
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coloration - 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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