coltailler
The verdict
“coltailler” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se battre, affronter quelqu’un, lutter contre quelqu’un ou quelque chose ; jouer à se battre, à lutter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coltailler · coltailler · French
coltailler · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coltailler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coltailler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coltailler is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
coltailler doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is coltailler, spelled C-O-L-T-A-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Se battre, affronter quelqu’un, lutter contre quelqu’un ou quelque chose ; jouer à se battre, à lutter.
- 2Chahuter — (Petit lexique québécois sur cayabdl.free.fr. Consulté le 3 novembre 2020)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coltailler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Moi, me coltailler avec la plèbe pour tenter de loger une sphère de cuir dans un rectangle de cordes […]
Il y a presqu’un an, j’ai écris une chanson qui s’appelait "Mon frère", et puis là mes quatre frères se sont mis à coltailler : "je pense que c’est pour moi qu'il a écrit ça", "non, non, non c’est pour moi qu’il a écrit ça".
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.