colos
\kɔ.lo\
The verdict
“colos” is uncommon French (frequency #79,170 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,170
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de colo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colos · colos · French
colos · rank #79,170 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,170
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colorimétrique
Nearest frequency peer: colorimétrique (-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 « colos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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cochenilles
20,835 corpus weight
- colada
colada
20,833 corpus weight
- colorimétri…
colorimétrique
20,832 corpus weight
- colos
colos
20,831 corpus weight
- comportez
comportez
20,829 corpus weight
- conceptuell…
conceptuellement
20,828 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « colos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colos is uncommon French at frequency #79,170 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de colo.".
colos doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is colos, spelled C-O-L-O-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de colo.
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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