clairière

\klɛ.ʁjɛʁ\

/\klɛ.ʁjɛʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“clairière” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,101. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,101
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Endroit d’une forêt dégarni d’arbres.

Corpus desk

Index FR-clairiere · clairière · French

clairière · rank #28,101 · 13 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #28,101
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cites

Nearest frequency peer: cites (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « clairière »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « clairière » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

clairière vs carrière
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for clairière
PropertyValue
Headwordclairière
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\klɛ.ʁjɛʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#28,101
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « clairière »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.clairièrese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « cites » (#28,100), « circonférence » (#28,099), « cognitifs » (#28,103). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « clairière » est au #28,101. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around clairière (IPA \klɛ.ʁjɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,101 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for clairière, with forms such as "calirière", "cclairière", and "claiirère". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "carrière", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 clairière, spelled C-L-A-I-R-I-È-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Endroit d’une forêt dégarni d’arbres.
  2. 2
    Passage entre la banquise et les gros amas de glaces.
  3. 3
    Lieu dégagé par rapport à son environnement immédiat.
  4. 4
    Entre-bat.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how clairière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le jour commençait à poindre sur les clairières de la forêt, chaque feuille rayonnait d’une perle de rosée.
  2. Les maringouins arrivaient en légions si nombreuses que leur bourdonnement formait une clameur, une vaste note basse qui emplissait la clairière comme un mugissement.

This word in other languages

clearing(English)Lichtung(Deutsch)clareira(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • calirière
  • cclairière
  • claiirère
  • clairiere
  • clairirèe
  • clairièer
  • clairièrre
  • clairrière
  • clairèire
  • clariière
  • cliarière
  • cllairière
  • lcairière

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clairière - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

calirière2cclairière1claiirère2clairiere1clairirèe2clairièer2clairièrre1clairrière1
Edit distance from "clairière"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "clairière"?
"clairière" is spelled C-L-A-I-R-I-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \klɛ.ʁjɛʁ\.
What does "clairière" mean?
As a noun, "clairière" means: Endroit d’une forêt dégarni d’arbres.
What words are commonly confused with "clairière"?
"clairière" is commonly confused with "carrière". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "clairière"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "clairière" is \klɛ.ʁjɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "clairière" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "clairière", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

cognitifs#28,103colorants#28,104cellulose#28,096confondue#28,109

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

conférer13 variantscarrefours13 variantscantonale13 variantsbyzantin13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list