coloris
\kɔ.lɔ.ʁi\
The verdict
“coloris” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,130. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,130
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Effet qui résulte du mélange et de l’emploi des couleurs dans les tableaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coloris · coloris · French
coloris · rank #12,130 · 10 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,130
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clous
Nearest frequency peer: clous (-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 « coloris »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- clans
clans
87,874 corpus weight
- clou
clou
87,873 corpus weight
- clous
clous
87,872 corpus weight
- coloris
coloris
87,871 corpus weight
- connaissaie…
connaissaient
87,870 corpus weight
- conservée
conservée
87,869 corpus weight
What this shows « coloris » 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 | coloris |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔ.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,130 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « coloris »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around coloris (IPA \kɔ.lɔ.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,130 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 coloris, with forms such as "ccoloris", "clooris", and "colloris". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "compris", "Comores", "coloriste", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is coloris, spelled C-O-L-O-R-I-S.
Definition
- 1Effet qui résulte du mélange et de l’emploi des couleurs dans les tableaux.
- 2Coloration du visage, des fruits.
- 3Ce qui est haut en couleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coloris appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Coloris frais, chaud, vigoureux, tendre, vif.
Le coloris d’un tableau.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccoloris
- clooris
- colloris
- coloirs
- coloriss
- colorris
- colorsi
- colrois
- coolris
- ocloris
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coloris - 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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