claim
\klɛm\
The verdict
“claim” is uncommon French (frequency #65,023 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,023
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Droit de concession minière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-claim · claim · French
claim · rank #65,023 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,023
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cimer
Nearest frequency peer: cimer (-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 « claim »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chilly
chilly
34,981 corpus weight
- chique
chique
34,980 corpus weight
- cimer
cimer
34,979 corpus weight
- claim
claim
34,978 corpus weight
- Clicquot
Clicquot
34,977 corpus weight
- clôturant
clôturant
34,976 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « claim » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | claim |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klɛm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,023 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « claim » en français
Rare enough to double-check
claim is uncommon French at frequency #65,023 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \klɛm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Droit de concession minière.".
Zero misspellings are on record for claim in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is claim, spelled C-L-A-I-M.
Definition
- 1Droit de concession minière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how claim appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cet enregistrement se fera dans un livre tenu à cet effet, dans lequel seront inscrits le nom du claim, le nom de chaque propriétaire, le numéro de son certificat, le lieu où se trouve la mine, la date de l’enregistrement et tous autres détails jugés nécessaires par le commissaire des mines d’or.
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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