Colville
The verdict
“Colville” is uncommon French (frequency #92,565 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,565
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-colville · Colville · French
Colville · rank #92,565 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,565
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colportage
Nearest frequency peer: colportage (-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 « Colville »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- colophane
colophane
7,439 corpus weight
- colours
colours
7,438 corpus weight
- colportage
colportage
7,437 corpus weight
- Colville
Colville
7,436 corpus weight
- combattrons
combattrons
7,435 corpus weight
- commettants
commettants
7,433 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Colville » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Colville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,565 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Colville » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Colville is uncommon French at frequency #92,565 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Colville in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Colville, spelled C-O-L-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Colville appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Charles Colville.
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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