coltiner
\kɔl.ti.ne\
The verdict
“coltiner” is uncommon French (frequency #53,216 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,216
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Porter quelque chose de lourd.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coltiner · coltiner · French
coltiner · rank #53,216 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,216
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colonnade
Nearest frequency peer: colonnade (-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 « coltiner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- colonnade
colonnade
46,786 corpus weight
- coltiner
coltiner
46,785 corpus weight
- combattaient
combattaient
46,784 corpus weight
- commutateurs
commutateurs
46,783 corpus weight
- complaisante
complaisante
46,782 corpus weight
- comportemen…
comportemental
46,781 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coltiner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coltiner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔl.ti.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,216 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coltiner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coltiner is uncommon French at frequency #53,216 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔl.ti.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for coltiner, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is coltiner, spelled C-O-L-T-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Porter quelque chose de lourd.
- 2Être chargé d’une tâche fatigante, supporter quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coltiner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le village en suintait de nourriture et d’escouades dans la nuit bouffie de graisse, de pommes, d’avoine, de sucre, qu’il fallait coltiner et bazarder en route, au hasard des escouades.
Magnin sort une malle d’osier emplie de battements d’ailes. Je l’aide à la coltiner jusqu’au hangar.
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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