colossus
\kə.ˈlɒs.əs\
The verdict
“colossus” is uncommon French (frequency #75,522 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,522
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Colosse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colossus · colossus · French
colossus · rank #75,522 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,522
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colonisations
Nearest frequency peer: colonisations (-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 « colossus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- codifiées
codifiées
24,483 corpus weight
- collera
collera
24,481 corpus weight
- colonisatio…
colonisations
24,480 corpus weight
- colossus
colossus
24,479 corpus weight
- comfortable
comfortable
24,478 corpus weight
- concentrati…
concentrationnaire
24,476 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « colossus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colossus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kə.ˈlɒs.əs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,522 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colossus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colossus is uncommon French at frequency #75,522 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kə.ˈlɒs.əs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Colosse.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for colossus, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is colossus, spelled C-O-L-O-S-S-U-S.
Definition
- 1Colosse.
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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