colorature
\kɔ.lɔ.ʁa.tyʁ\
The verdict
“colorature” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vocalise d’une grande virtuosité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colorature · colorature · French
colorature · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | colorature |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔ.ʁa.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colorature » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colorature is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.lɔ.ʁa.tyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for colorature, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is colorature, spelled C-O-L-O-R-A-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Vocalise d’une grande virtuosité.
- 2Personne capable de cette virtuosité vocale, notamment dans les aiguës.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colorature appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les opéras de Rossini regorgent de coloratures.
Les plus grandes coloratures ont interprété l’air de la Reine de la nuit de Mozart ("La Flûte enchantée") ou "Les oiseaux dans la charmille" d’Offenbach ("Les contes d’Hoffmann").
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.