coloriage
\kɔ.lɔ.ʁjaʒ\
The verdict
“coloriage” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,938. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,938
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de colorier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coloriage · coloriage · French
coloriage · rank #44,938 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,938
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH collagène
Nearest frequency peer: collagène (-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 « coloriage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cochet
cochet
55,066 corpus weight
- cocotier
cocotier
55,065 corpus weight
- collagène
collagène
55,064 corpus weight
- coloriage
coloriage
55,063 corpus weight
- compares
compares
55,062 corpus weight
- complex
complex
55,061 corpus weight
What this shows « coloriage » 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 | coloriage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔ.ʁjaʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #44,938 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « coloriage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around coloriage (IPA \kɔ.lɔ.ʁjaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,938 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for coloriage, with forms such as "ccoloriage", "clooriage", and "colloriage". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "coloriste", "coloniale", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is coloriage, spelled C-O-L-O-R-I-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de colorier.
- 2Résultat de cette action.
- 3Mauvaise peinture.
- 4Dessin destiné à être colorié pour les enfants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coloriage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce vieil enfant n’avait qu’une passion au monde : la passion du coloriage. Depuis quelque quarante ans, il vivait entouré de godets, de pinceaux, de couleurs, et passait son temps à colorier des images de journaux illustrés.
On préfère construire un roman, qu'on déroule à sa guise, au rythme que l'on choisit, on l'illustre d'images d'Épinal aux coloriages grossiers, aux violentes couleurs.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccoloriage
- clooriage
- colloriage
- coloirage
- coloraige
- coloriaeg
- coloriagge
- colorigae
- colorriage
- colroiage
- coolriage
- ocloriage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coloriage - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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