coloriste
\kɔ.lɔ.ʁist\
The verdict
“coloriste” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,072. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,072
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peintre qui entend bien le coloris.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coloriste · coloriste · French
coloriste · rank #46,072 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,072
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colonialiste
Nearest frequency peer: colonialiste (-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 « coloriste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- clairvoyant
clairvoyant
53,932 corpus weight
- codifié
codifié
53,931 corpus weight
- colonialiste
colonialiste
53,930 corpus weight
- coloriste
coloriste
53,929 corpus weight
- comeback
comeback
53,928 corpus weight
- commère
commère
53,926 corpus weight
What this shows « coloriste » 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 | coloriste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔ.ʁist\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #46,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « coloriste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around coloriste (IPA \kɔ.lɔ.ʁist\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,072 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for coloriste, with forms such as "ccoloriste", "clooriste", and "colloriste". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "coloris", "coloriage", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is coloriste, spelled C-O-L-O-R-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Peintre qui entend bien le coloris.
- 2Membre d’une école de peinture du milieu du XIXᵉ siècle.
- 3Personne qui colorie des estampes ou des gravures.
- 4Personne qui colorise des illustrations ou des planches de bande dessinée.
- 5Coiffeur spécialiste de la teinture des cheveux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coloriste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’effet est laid, criard, de mauvais goût, et prouve qu’un grand sculpteur n’a pas besoin d’être un coloriste ; autrement, Thorwaldsen n’eût pas permis à sa vanité d’offenser à ce point l’harmonie d’un portrait.
Une cabane de planches, une écluse, un tronc de saule, une vache, une coque de barque forment tableau tout de suite ; ils ont derrière eux de l’air, de l’espace et du ciel, et rien ne les rapetisse. En voyant cette nature, on comprend pourquoi les Hollandais sont si bons coloristes, tandis que les Suisses n’ont jamais su peindre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccoloriste
- clooriste
- colloriste
- coloirste
- coloriset
- colorisste
- coloristte
- coloritse
- colorriste
- colorsite
- colroiste
- coolriste
- ocloriste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coloriste - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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