colour
\ˈkʌl.ə\
The verdict
“colour” is uncommon French (frequency #59,899 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,899
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colour · colour · French
colour · rank #59,899 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,899
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cogénération
Nearest frequency peer: cogénération (-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 « colour »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cocus
cocus
40,105 corpus weight
- cogneur
cogneur
40,104 corpus weight
- cogénération
cogénération
40,103 corpus weight
- colour
colour
40,102 corpus weight
- colporter
colporter
40,101 corpus weight
- complexités
complexités
40,099 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « colour » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkʌl.ə\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colour » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colour is uncommon French at frequency #59,899 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈkʌl.ə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for colour in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is colour, spelled C-O-L-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Couleur.
- 2En couleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how colour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Colour television.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).