colossales
\kɔ.lɔ.sal\
The verdict
“colossales” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,237. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,237
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de colossal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colossales · colossales · French
colossales · rank #37,237 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,237
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colonna
Nearest frequency peer: colonna (-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 « colossales »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- clignotants
clignotants
62,767 corpus weight
- cock
cock
62,766 corpus weight
- colonna
colonna
62,765 corpus weight
- colossales
colossales
62,764 corpus weight
- combattante
combattante
62,763 corpus weight
- comedy
comedy
62,762 corpus weight
What this shows « colossales » 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 | colossales |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.lɔ.sal\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #37,237 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « colossales »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around colossales (IPA \kɔ.lɔ.sal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #37,237 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de colossal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for colossales, with forms such as "ccolossales", "cloossales", and "collossales". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "colossal", "colossale", "coloniales", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is colossales, spelled C-O-L-O-S-S-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de colossal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how colossales appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce très savant musicien, aux conceptions colossales, réduites par l’érudition la plus rare d’un métier qu’il possède seul, eut wagnérianisé la tradition; le contraire, chez lui, nous aurait surpris.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolossales
- cloossales
- collossales
- colosales
- colosasles
- colossaels
- colossaless
- colossalles
- colossalse
- colosslaes
- colsosales
- coolssales
- oclossales
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of colossales - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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