coloscopie
\kɔ.lɔs.kɔ.pi\
The verdict
“coloscopie” is uncommon French (frequency #70,486 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,486
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Examen médical du gros intestin, appelé aussi côlon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coloscopie · coloscopie · French
coloscopie · rank #70,486 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,486
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH collyre
Nearest frequency peer: collyre (-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 « coloscopie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- collaborati…
collaboratives
29,518 corpus weight
- collantes
collantes
29,517 corpus weight
- collyre
collyre
29,516 corpus weight
- coloscopie
coloscopie
29,515 corpus weight
- comanche
comanche
29,514 corpus weight
- Combray
Combray
29,513 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coloscopie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coloscopie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔs.kɔ.pi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #70,486 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coloscopie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coloscopie is uncommon French at frequency #70,486 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.lɔs.kɔ.pi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Examen médical du gros intestin, appelé aussi côlon.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for coloscopie in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 coloscopie, spelled C-O-L-O-S-C-O-P-I-E.
Definition
- 1Examen médical du gros intestin, appelé aussi côlon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coloscopie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des mammographies et des coloscopies ont été repoussées.
Pour les individus dont le test se révèle positif, une coloscopie de suivi permet d’identifier et d’enlever les polypes précancéreux, prévenant ainsi le cancer.
This word in other languages
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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