colporteurs
\kɔl.pɔʁ.tœʁ\
The verdict
“colporteurs” is uncommon French (frequency #61,408 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,408
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de colporteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colporteurs · colporteurs · French
colporteurs · rank #61,408 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,408
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Colgate
Nearest frequency peer: Colgate (-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 « colporteurs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- citrus
citrus
38,596 corpus weight
- Colgate
Colgate
38,594 corpus weight
- colporteurs
colporteurs
38,593 corpus weight
- combattra
combattra
38,592 corpus weight
- comma
comma
38,591 corpus weight
- commedia
commedia
38,590 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « colporteurs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colporteurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔl.pɔʁ.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #61,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colporteurs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colporteurs is uncommon French at frequency #61,408 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔl.pɔʁ.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de colporteur.".
Zero misspellings are on record for colporteurs in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 colporteurs, spelled C-O-L-P-O-R-T-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de colporteur.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "colporteurs"?
What does "colporteurs" mean?
How do you pronounce "colporteurs"?
What language does "colporteurs" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "colporteurs", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).