colportage
\kɔl.pɔʁ.taʒ\
The verdict
“colportage” is uncommon French (frequency #92,564 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,564
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de colporter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colportage · colportage · French
colportage · rank #92,564 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,564
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colours
Nearest frequency peer: colours (-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 « colportage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cognacs
cognacs
7,440 corpus weight
- colophane
colophane
7,439 corpus weight
- colours
colours
7,438 corpus weight
- colportage
colportage
7,437 corpus weight
- Colville
Colville
7,436 corpus weight
- combattrons
combattrons
7,435 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « colportage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colportage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔl.pɔʁ.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #92,564 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colportage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colportage is uncommon French at frequency #92,564 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔl.pɔʁ.taʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for colportage in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 colportage, spelled C-O-L-P-O-R-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de colporter.
- 2Action de colporter des imprimés, des estampes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colportage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. Jules Simon, par une circulaire aux préfets, interdit le colportage de la pétition réclamant une intervention de la France en faveur du Saint-Siège, […].
— Waldeck-Rousseau était trop supérieur pour jouer au jeu misérable des colportages de propos.
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.
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