corolle

\kɔ.ʁɔl\

/\kɔ.ʁɔl\/ noun

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The verdict

“corolle” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,242. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#39,242
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie d’une fleur complète formée de l'ensemble de ses pétales, qui enveloppe immédiatement les organes de la fécondation et qui est ordinairement colorée.

Corpus desk

Index FR-corolle · corolle · French

corolle · rank #39,242 · 8 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #39,242
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cops

Nearest frequency peer: cops (-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 « corolle »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « corolle » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

corolle vs couille
71% similar
corolle vs Cyrille
57% similar
corolle vs colle
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for corolle
PropertyValue
Headwordcorolle
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.ʁɔl\
Letters7
Frequency rank#39,242
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « corolle »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.corollese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « cops » (#39,241), « corroborer » (#39,243), « coopératifs » (#39,240). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « corolle » est au #39,242. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around corolle (IPA \kɔ.ʁɔl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,242 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for corolle, with forms such as "ccorolle", "coorlle", and "corlole". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "couille", "Cyrille", "colle", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is corolle, spelled C-O-R-O-L-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partie d’une fleur complète formée de l'ensemble de ses pétales, qui enveloppe immédiatement les organes de la fécondation et qui est ordinairement colorée.
  2. 2
    Objet en forme de corolle.
  3. 3
    Pâte alimentaire originaire d'Alsace bénéficiant d'une IGP, que l'on trouve partout en France.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how corolle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La nature, pimpante et piquante comme une brune au printemps, devient mélancolique et douce comme une blonde, les gazons se dorent, les fleurs d’automne poussent leurs pâles corolles, ce n’est plus les marguerites qui percent les pelouses de leurs yeux blancs, mais de rares calices violâtres.
  2. Le mélampyre des champs a son insecte pollinisateur, un bourdon, le Bombus hortorum, seul en son genre à pénétrer dans l’étroit tube de la corolle pour y rechercher le nectar ; les autres bourdons perforent le tube à sa base.

Antonyms

calicesépale

This word in other languages

corolla(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccorolle
  • coorlle
  • corlole
  • corole
  • corolel
  • corrolle
  • croolle
  • ocrolle

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of corolle - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ccorolle1coorlle2corlole2corole1corolel2corrolle1croolle2ocrolle2
Edit distance from "corolle"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "corolle"?
"corolle" is spelled C-O-R-O-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.ʁɔl\.
What does "corolle" mean?
As a noun, "corolle" means: Partie d’une fleur complète formée de l'ensemble de ses pétales, qui enveloppe immédiatement les organes de la fécondation et qui est ordinairement colorée.
What words are commonly confused with "corolle"?
"corolle" is commonly confused with "couille", "Cyrille", "colle". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "corolle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "corolle" is \kɔ.ʁɔl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "corolle" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "corolle", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list