chlorures
\klɔ.ʁyʁ\
The verdict
“chlorures” is uncommon French (frequency #80,989 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,989
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de chlorure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chlorures · chlorures · French
chlorures · rank #80,989 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,989
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chirurgicalem…
Nearest frequency peer: chirurgicalement (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « chlorures »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chiffonnier
chiffonnier
19,015 corpus weight
- chiller
chiller
19,014 corpus weight
- chirurgical…
chirurgicalement
19,013 corpus weight
- chlorures
chlorures
19,012 corpus weight
- chois
chois
19,011 corpus weight
- choisiraient
choisiraient
19,010 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chlorures » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chlorures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klɔ.ʁyʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,989 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chlorures » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chlorures is uncommon French at frequency #80,989 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \klɔ.ʁyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de chlorure.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for chlorures in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is chlorures, spelled C-H-L-O-R-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de chlorure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chlorures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est à noter que les composés isologues du germanium sont totalement désarylés par les chlorures d’acides, avec formation de GeCl₄.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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