chlore
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,148
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
chlore is aFrenchnoun. It means: Élément chimique de numéro atomique 17 et de symbole Cl qui fait partie des halogènes. Pronounced \klɔʁ\. Often confused with core and chose.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chlore |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,148 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chlore is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \klɔʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,148 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for chlore, with forms such as "cchlore", "chhlore", and "chllore". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "core", "chose", "close", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is chlore, spelled C-H-L-O-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Élément chimique de numéro atomique 17 et de symbole Cl qui fait partie des halogènes.
- 2Gaz de dichlore (Cl₂) d’un vert pâle, jaunâtre et d’une odeur désagréable, toxique et irritant.
- 3Atome (ou, par ellipse, noyau) de chlore.
- 4Désinfectant à base de produit chloré comme du dichloroisocyanurate de sodium (DCCNa), de l’hypochlorite de sodium ou de l’hypochlorite de calcium.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cchlore,chhlore,chllore,chloer,chlorre,chlroe,cholre,clhore,hclore
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Misspelling Variants of "chlore"
Frequency rank: #18,148 in French
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Nearby French words
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