lac collinaire
\lak kɔ.li.nɛʁ\
The verdict
“lac collinaire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Lac artificiel de petite ou moyenne dimension, aménagé au dévers d’une colline, afin de recueillir les eaux de ruissellement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lac collinaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lak kɔ.li.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lac collinaire” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
lac collinaire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \lak kɔ.li.nɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lac artificiel de petite ou moyenne dimension, aménagé au dévers d’une colline, afin de recueillir les eaux de ruissellement.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for lac collinaire, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is lac collinaire, spelled L-A-C- -C-O-L-L-I-N-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Lac artificiel de petite ou moyenne dimension, aménagé au dévers d’une colline, afin de recueillir les eaux de ruissellement.
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.
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Using “lac collinaire”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-A-C- -C-O-L-L-I-N-A-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \lak kɔ.li.nɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.