clermont
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "clermont", 8-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "clermont" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "clermont" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
Clermont is aEnglishname. It means: Ellipsis of Clermont-Ferrand. Often confused with clement and Claremont.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Clermont |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Name |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Clermont is 8 letters long, classified as aname. Corpus data places it at rank #29,214 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Clermont, with forms such as "cclermont", "celrmont", and "clemront". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "clement", "Claremont", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French Clermont, from Latin clarus (“clear, famed”) + mons (“mount, mountain”). Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is Clermont, spelled C-L-E-R-M-O-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ellipsis of Clermont-Ferrand.
- 2A commune in Oise department, Hauts-de-France, France.
- 3A commune in Landes department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
- 4A commune in Haute-Savoie department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
- 5A commune in Ariège department, Occitania, France.
- 6A town in Capitale-Nationale, Quebec; named for Clermont-Ferrand in honor of Blaise Pascal.
- 7A town in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec.
- 8A city in Florida.
- 9A town in Georgia, United States.
- 10A town in Indiana.
- 11A city in Iowa.
- 12A town in New York; named for the nearby Taconic mountains.
- 13A town in Queensland; named for Clermont-Ferrand, the hometown of a founder.
- 14A town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; named after an early landowner.
Etymology
From French Clermont, from Latin clarus (“clear, famed”) + mons (“mount, mountain”).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cclermont,celrmont,clemront,clermmont,clermnot,clermonnt,clermontt,clermotn,cleromnt,clerrmont,cllermont,clremont,lcermont
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Clermont
Misspelling Variants of "Clermont"
Frequency rank: #29,214 in English
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