colubrine
\kɔ.ly.bʁin\
The verdict
“colubrine” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Argile employée pour la fabrication des poteries.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colubrine · colubrine · French
colubrine · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 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 | colubrine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ly.bʁin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « colubrine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
colubrine is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.ly.bʁin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
colubrine doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is colubrine, spelled C-O-L-U-B-R-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Argile employée pour la fabrication des poteries.
- 2Talc.
- 3Plante d'Amérique du Sud de la famille des rhamnées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colubrine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La colubrine est un silicate magnésien, un peu gras au loucher, d’une couleur verdâtre, qu’on trouve dans quelques contrées de l’Allemagne.
Une espèce de colubrine est utilisée en Guyane pour fabriquer une boisson alcoolisée par fermentation.
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.