Clare vs clear, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“Clare” is a name and “clear” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#39,271
“Clare” frequency rank: #27,240
“clear” frequency rank: 66511
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	Clare	clear
Definition	ein County bzw. eine historische Grafschaft in der Provinz Ulster, Republik Irland	klar

Letter map: Clare vs clear

Shared letters muted; letters that set Clare and clear apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

5 ch

Clare

5 ch

clear

Part-of-speech tell for Clare / clear

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Clare is aname and clearanadjective. On the page they are an anagram pair: the same letters reordered. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 66511, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Clare is recorded at frequency rank #39,271, classified as aname, pronounced […]. clear is at rank #27,240, tagged as anadj, pronounced [klɪə].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 66511, this pair ranks #570,777 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Clare vs clear

Shared letters: acelr. Private to "Clare": -. Private to "clear": -.

"Clare" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV · "clear" · 5 letters · shape CCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

Clare ← calre · cclare · clarre · cllare · clrae · lcare
clear ← cclear · celar · claer · clearr · clera · cllear · lcear

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Clare" and "clear" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Clare" is a name and "clear" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

In ordinary German text, does "Clare" or "clear" show up more?

"clear" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #27,240 in our German list, against #39,271 for "Clare". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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Full dictionary entry for "Clare" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "clear" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #570,777 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"Clare" and "clear" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Clare vs puzzles". Nearby pair
Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #570,777 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.