coloscopie

\kɔ.lɔs.kɔ.pi\

/\kɔ.lɔs.kɔ.pi\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coloscopie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for coloscopie
PropertyValue
Headwordcoloscopie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.lɔs.kɔ.pi\
Letters10
Frequency rank#70,486
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « coloscopie » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.coloscopietombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « collyre » (#70,485), « comanche » (#70,487), « collantes » (#70,484). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « coloscopie » est au #70,486. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Examen médical du gros intestin, appelé aussi côlon.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how coloscopie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Des mammographies et des coloscopies ont été repoussées.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "coloscopie"?
"coloscopie" is spelled C-O-L-O-S-C-O-P-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.lɔs.kɔ.pi\.
What does "coloscopie" mean?
As a noun, "coloscopie" means: Examen médical du gros intestin, appelé aussi côlon.
How do you pronounce "coloscopie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "coloscopie" is \kɔ.lɔs.kɔ.pi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "coloscopie" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "coloscopie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list