Cl
The verdict
“Cl” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,015) as a symbol. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,015
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Symbole chimique du chlore.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cl · Cl · French
Cl · rank #11,015 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,015
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH circonstance
Nearest frequency peer: circonstance (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Cl”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- chargeur
chargeur
88,989 corpus weight
- Charleroi
Charleroi
88,988 corpus weight
- circonstance
circonstance
88,987 corpus weight
- Cl
Cl
88,986 corpus weight
- clandestins
clandestins
88,985 corpus weight
- collision
collision
88,984 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Cl” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cl |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #11,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “Cl” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Cl is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "Cm", …), not just typos; it is asymbol. Frequency #11,015 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Symbole chimique du chlore.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Cl, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "Cm", "CV", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Cl, spelled C-L.
Definition
- 1Symbole chimique du chlore.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Cl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le formène est surtout intéressant par les dérivés de substitution qu'il forme avec les halogènes Cl, Br, I.
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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- "Cl" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "co". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #11,015 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "C" letter cohort. C–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.