# cleve

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #47,535

## Definitions
1. A room; chamber.
2. A cottage.
3. A cliff or hillside.

## Etymology
From Middle English cleve, from Old English clēofa, clēafa (“that which is cloven, a cleft, chasm, cave, den, lair, cell, chamber, cellar, apartment”), from Proto-Germanic *klebô (“chamber, cell”), from Proto-Indo-European *glewbʰ- (“to cut, cleave, split, divide”). Cognate with Old Norse klefi (“a closet, sleeping closet, bedroom”) (whence Icelandic klefi (“cell, compartment”)). Related to cleave.

## Easily confused with
- **clue** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cleve-vs-clue)
- **cove** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cleve-vs-cove)
- **Cree** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cleve-vs-cree)
- **close** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cleve-vs-close)
- **curve** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cleve-vs-curve)
- **Clyde** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cleve-vs-clyde)
- **clone** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cleve-vs-clone)
- **Clive** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cleve-vs-clive)
- **crave** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cleve-vs-crave)
- **Crete** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cleve-vs-crete)
- **Crewe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cleve-vs-crewe)
- **clove** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cleve-vs-clove)
- **crème** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cleve-vs-creme)
- **clever** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cleve-vs-clever)
- **clover** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cleve-vs-clover)
- **cloves** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cleve-vs-cloves)
- **cee** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cee-vs-cleve)
- **cave** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cave-vs-cleve)
- **Cleo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cleo-vs-cleve)
- **clem** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clem-vs-cleve)

## Common misspellings (7)
`ccleve`, `celve`, `cleev`, `clevve`, `clleve`, `clvee`, `lceve`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/cleve