colza
\kɔl.za\
The verdict
“colza” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,377. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,377
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante de la famille des Brassicacées, largement cultivée en Europe, dont la graine fournit une huile pour divers usages, dont l’alimentation, et les tourteaux, riches en protéines, peuvent nourrir...
Corpus desk
Index FR-colza · colza · French
colza · rank #27,377 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,377
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colocation
Nearest frequency peer: colocation (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « colza »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coiffée
coiffée
72,627 corpus weight
- Coleman
Coleman
72,626 corpus weight
- colocation
colocation
72,625 corpus weight
- colza
colza
72,624 corpus weight
- computer
computer
72,623 corpus weight
- confluent
confluent
72,622 corpus weight
What this shows « colza » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colza |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔl.za\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #27,377 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « colza »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around colza (IPA \kɔl.za\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,377 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plante de la famille des Brassicacées, largement cultivée en Europe, dont la graine fournit une huile pour divers usages, dont l’alimentation, et les tourteaux, riches en protéines, peuvent nourrir...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for colza, with forms such as "ccolza", "cloza", and "colaz". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "coma", "cora", "copa", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 colza, spelled C-O-L-Z-A.
Definition
- 1Plante de la famille des Brassicacées, largement cultivée en Europe, dont la graine fournit une huile pour divers usages, dont l’alimentation, et les tourteaux, riches en protéines, peuvent nourrir le bétail.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how colza appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pauvre bonhomme, d’ailleurs, qui sans les colzas de l’an passé, eût été bien embarrassé de payer ses arrérages,
Les colzas en fleur mettaient de place en place une grande nappe jaune ondulante d’où s’élevait une saine et puissante odeur, une odeur pénétrante et douce, portée très loin par le vent.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolza
- cloza
- colaz
- collza
- colzza
- cozla
- oclza
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of colza - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).