colossale
\kɔ.lɔ.sal\
The verdict
“colossale” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,805. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,805
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de colossal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colossale · colossale · French
colossale · rank #23,805 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,805
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colombienne
Nearest frequency peer: colombienne (-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 « colossale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coiffeuse
coiffeuse
76,199 corpus weight
- collaborati…
collaborative
76,198 corpus weight
- colombienne
colombienne
76,197 corpus weight
- colossale
colossale
76,196 corpus weight
- commons
commons
76,195 corpus weight
- commémorer
commémorer
76,194 corpus weight
What this shows « colossale » 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 | colossale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔ.sal\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #23,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « colossale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around colossale (IPA \kɔ.lɔ.sal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #23,805 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de colossal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for colossale, with forms such as "ccolossale", "cloossale", and "collossale". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "colosse", "colossaux", "colossales", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is colossale, spelled C-O-L-O-S-S-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de colossal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colossale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une colossale figure du « Temps », soulève Terre et cadran sur ses vigoureuses épaules.
D’ailleurs, les lumières acquises par Esther sur les moyens secrètement honteux auxquels le baron devait sa fortune colossale lui ôtèrent tout scrupule, elle se plut à jouer le rôle de la déesse Até, la vengeance, selon le mot de Carlos.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolossale
- cloossale
- collossale
- colosale
- colosasle
- colossael
- colossalle
- colosslae
- colsosale
- coolssale
- oclossale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of colossale - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).