colors
\ˈkʌl.ɚz\
The verdict
“colors” is uncommon French (frequency #54,486 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,486
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de color.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colors · colors · French
colors · rank #54,486 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,486
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colonisée
Nearest frequency peer: colonisée (-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 « colors »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- collectivis…
collectivisation
45,518 corpus weight
- colonisée
colonisée
45,516 corpus weight
- colors
colors
45,515 corpus weight
- comblement
comblement
45,514 corpus weight
- commères
commères
45,513 corpus weight
- comptabilis…
comptabilisation
45,512 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « colors » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colors |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkʌl.ɚz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,486 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colors » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colors is uncommon French at frequency #54,486 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈkʌl.ɚz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for colors, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is colors, spelled C-O-L-O-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de color.
- 2Fanion. S’emploie généralement au pluriel dans ce sens.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).