colporter
\kɔl.pɔʁ.te\
The verdict
“colporter” is uncommon French (frequency #59,900 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,900
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vendre à domicile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colporter · colporter · French
colporter · rank #59,900 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,900
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colour
Nearest frequency peer: colour (-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 « colporter »
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 « colporter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colporter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔl.pɔʁ.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colporter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colporter is uncommon French at frequency #59,900 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔl.pɔʁ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for colporter, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 colporter, spelled C-O-L-P-O-R-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Vendre à domicile.
- 2Vendre à la criée, en particulier des journaux et périodiques.
- 3Transporter.
- 4Répandre en la racontant, une nouvelle, une histoire, dans les divers endroits où l’on va.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colporter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il me montra les quartiers populeux où quinze ans plus tôt il colportait des savonnettes.
Dans les grandes artères retentissaient les cris des vendeurs de journaux, qui colportaient dans la banlieue les éditions du soir.
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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