clairette
\klɛ.ʁɛt\
The verdict
“clairette” is uncommon French (frequency #76,429 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,429
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cépage blanc ou rose cultivé dans le sud de la France, raisin de cette variété.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clairette · clairette · French
clairette · rank #76,429 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,429
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clam
Nearest frequency peer: clam (+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 « clairette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chuchotement
chuchotement
23,577 corpus weight
- chômeuse
chômeuse
23,575 corpus weight
- cinétiques
cinétiques
23,574 corpus weight
- clairette
clairette
23,572 corpus weight
- clam
clam
23,571 corpus weight
- clignement
clignement
23,568 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clairette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clairette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klɛ.ʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,429 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clairette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clairette is uncommon French at frequency #76,429 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \klɛ.ʁɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for clairette in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is clairette, spelled C-L-A-I-R-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Cépage blanc ou rose cultivé dans le sud de la France, raisin de cette variété.
- 2Vin blanc mousseux fait entièrement ou partiellement avec ce cépage.
- 3Mâche. → voir doucette
- 4Maladie des vers à soie qui rend leur corps transparent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clairette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Clairette de Die est un vin (AOC) effervescent de la vallée de la Drôme, elle contient au moins 75% de muscat blanc à petits grains, le Crémant de Die par contre est souvent 100% clairette!
Voici ce que l'inspection anatomique m'a appris à cet égard : je n'ai observé aucune infiltration dans les organes des vers malades de la clairette, ...
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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