clairons
\klɛ.ʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“clairons” is uncommon French (frequency #87,467 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,467
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de clairon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clairons · clairons · French
clairons · rank #87,467 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,467
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH civilisationn…
Nearest frequency peer: civilisationnel (-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 « clairons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cireur
cireur
12,536 corpus weight
- civilisatio…
civilisationnel
12,535 corpus weight
- clairons
clairons
12,534 corpus weight
- claqua
claqua
12,533 corpus weight
- clarifiée
clarifiée
12,532 corpus weight
- claymore
claymore
12,531 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clairons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clairons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klɛ.ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clairons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clairons is uncommon French at frequency #87,467 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \klɛ.ʁɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de clairon.".
clairons doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is clairons, spelled C-L-A-I-R-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de clairon.
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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