clair-étage
\klɛ.ʁe.taʒ\
The verdict
“clair-étage” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rangée de fenêtres placées aux étages supérieurs de la nef des édifices gothiques, claire-voie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clair-etage · clair-étage · French
clair-étage · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clair-étage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klɛ.ʁe.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clair-étage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clair-étage is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \klɛ.ʁe.taʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rangée de fenêtres placées aux étages supérieurs de la nef des édifices gothiques, claire-voie.".
Zero misspellings are on record for clair-étage in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is clair-étage, spelled C-L-A-I-R---É-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Rangée de fenêtres placées aux étages supérieurs de la nef des édifices gothiques, claire-voie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how clair-étage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les vitraux du clair-étage du chœur de la collégiale de Saint-Quentin sont l’œuvre d'Hector de Pétigny.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.