colorectal
\ko.lo.ʁɛk.tal\
The verdict
“colorectal” is uncommon French (frequency #60,654 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,654
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au côlon et au rectum.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colorectal · colorectal · French
colorectal · rank #60,654 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,654
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colonialistes
Nearest frequency peer: colonialistes (-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 « colorectal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- collette
collette
39,350 corpus weight
- colombages
colombages
39,349 corpus weight
- colonialist…
colonialistes
39,348 corpus weight
- colorectal
colorectal
39,347 corpus weight
- commandante
commandante
39,346 corpus weight
- commandera
commandera
39,345 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « colorectal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colorectal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ko.lo.ʁɛk.tal\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #60,654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colorectal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colorectal is uncommon French at frequency #60,654 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ko.lo.ʁɛk.tal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif au côlon et au rectum.".
Zero misspellings are on record for colorectal in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is colorectal, spelled C-O-L-O-R-E-C-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif au côlon et au rectum.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colorectal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est donc logique que plus la viande est riche en hème, en nitrites et plus elle est oxydée, plus les agents cancérigènes peuvent apparaître et agir sur la muqueuse colorectale.
Les effets sont plus rapides sur les cancers de l’œsophage, du pancréas, du cerveau et du poumon que sur ceux de l’estomac, de la prostate ou sur les cancers colorectaux.
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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