colour is on the Basic English 850 List.
collar - colour - comb
colour is one of the 1000 most common headwords.
college - colour - come

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Singular
colour

Plural
colours

 
Red, blue and green lights mixed make lighter colours.
 
Cyan, yellow and magenta paints mixed make darker colours.
  1. (countable & uncountable) The image caused by light in your eyes, due to light of various wavelengths hitting your retina.
    My favorite colour is blue.
  2. (uncountable) The colour of a person's skin, especially as an indicator of their race or ethnicity

Plain form
colour

Third-person singular
colours

Past tense
coloured

Past participle
coloured

Present participle
colouring

  1. To give something its colour.
    Rose coloured the drawing with a pencil.


Common colors (edit)

white - silver - grey - black - brown - red - orange - gold - yellow - olive - green - cyan - blue - indigo - violet - purple - magenta - pink