claes
/kleːz/
"claes" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“claes” is uncommon English (frequency #69,739 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,739
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - clothes
Corpus desk
Index EN-claes · claes · English
claes · rank #69,739 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,739
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Clackamas
Nearest frequency peer: Clackamas (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “claes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Chui
Chui
30,266 corpus weight
- circumnavig…
circumnavigate
30,264 corpus weight
- Clackamas
Clackamas
30,263 corpus weight
- claes
claes
30,262 corpus weight
- Claxton
Claxton
30,261 corpus weight
- Coghlan
Coghlan
30,259 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “claes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | claes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kleːz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “claes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
claes is uncommon English at frequency #69,739 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kleːz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "clothes".
No misspelling variants are generated for claes in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Variant of clathes, from Middle English clathes, from Old English clāþas (“clothes”), plural of clāþ (“cloth”). More at clothes. The correct English form is claes, spelled C-L-A-E-S.
Definition
- 1clothes
Etymology
Variant of clathes, from Middle English clathes, from Old English clāþas (“clothes”), plural of clāþ (“cloth”). More at clothes.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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