clafoutis
\kla.fu.ti\
The verdict
“clafoutis” is uncommon French (frequency #68,922 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,922
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gâteau à base de cerises noires et d’une épaisse pâte à crêpes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clafoutis · clafoutis · French
clafoutis · rank #68,922 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,922
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH ciselés
Nearest frequency peer: ciselés (-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 « clafoutis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ciara
Ciara
31,083 corpus weight
- cinnamon
cinnamon
31,081 corpus weight
- ciselés
ciselés
31,080 corpus weight
- clafoutis
clafoutis
31,079 corpus weight
- Clamecy
Clamecy
31,078 corpus weight
- clot
clot
31,076 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clafoutis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clafoutis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kla.fu.ti\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,922 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clafoutis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clafoutis is uncommon French at frequency #68,922 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kla.fu.ti\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for clafoutis, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists 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 clafoutis, spelled C-L-A-F-O-U-T-I-S.
Definition
- 1Gâteau à base de cerises noires et d’une épaisse pâte à crêpes.
- 2Entremets à base de légumes et dont la préparation est identique à celle du gâteau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how clafoutis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ma grand-mère me préparait de délicieux clafoutis avec les cerises de son jardin.
This word in other languages
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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