column
\ˈkɒ.ləm\
The verdict
“column” is uncommon French (frequency #82,805 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,805
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Colonne, pilier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-column · column · French
column · rank #82,805 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,805
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH collerait
Nearest frequency peer: collerait (-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 « column »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- codétenus
codétenus
17,200 corpus weight
- cogito
cogito
17,199 corpus weight
- cohéritiers
cohéritiers
17,198 corpus weight
- collerait
collerait
17,197 corpus weight
- column
column
17,196 corpus weight
- comtal
comtal
17,193 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « column » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | column |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkɒ.ləm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « column » en français
Rare enough to double-check
column is uncommon French at frequency #82,805 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈkɒ.ləm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
column has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is column, spelled C-O-L-U-M-N.
Definition
- 1Colonne, pilier.
- 2Colonne, colonne de journal, file.
- 3Rubrique.
- 4Feuilleton.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how column appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Having carefully perused the column of "houses to let," and the column of "dogs lost," and then the two columns of "wives and apprentices runaway," I attacked with great resolution the editorial matter, and, reading it from beginning to end without understanding a syllable, conceived the possibility of its being Chinese, (The Angel of the Odd - Edgar Alla…
She writes a weekly column in the newspaper.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).