colorer
\kɔ.lɔ.ʁe\
The verdict
“colorer” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,943. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,943
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Revêtir de telle ou telle couleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colorer · colorer · French
colorer · rank #34,943 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,943
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Colomiers
Nearest frequency peer: Colomiers (-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 « colorer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- collimateur
collimateur
65,061 corpus weight
- colocataires
colocataires
65,060 corpus weight
- Colomiers
Colomiers
65,059 corpus weight
- colorer
colorer
65,058 corpus weight
- combativité
combativité
65,057 corpus weight
- commanderie
commanderie
65,056 corpus weight
What this shows « colorer » 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 | colorer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔ.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,943 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « colorer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around colorer (IPA \kɔ.lɔ.ʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #34,943 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for colorer, with forms such as "ccolorer", "cloorer", and "collorer". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Cooper", "contrer", "coloris", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is colorer, spelled C-O-L-O-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Revêtir de telle ou telle couleur.
- 2Donner une belle apparence à quelque chose de mauvais.
- 3Donner un caractère particulier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colorer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’entrais dans la pièce, admirais les moulures des hauts murs d’un rose pâle, exceptionnellement colorés par le lampadaire à la lumière rose-orangée qui diffusait son atmosphère tamisée tout autour de nous.
Vingt minutes avant de retirer le rosbif du feu, déballez-le pour en colorer les surfaces, débrochez-le sur un plafond, salez-le, tenez-le à l’étuve pendant une demi-heure; […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolorer
- cloorer
- collorer
- coloerr
- colorerr
- colorre
- colorrer
- colroer
- coolrer
- oclorer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of colorer - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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