clairs
\klɛʁ\
The verdict
“clairs” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,820. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,820
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de clair.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clairs · clairs · French
clairs · rank #8,820 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,820
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chrétiennes
Nearest frequency peer: chrétiennes (-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 « clairs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cantons
cantons
91,183 corpus weight
- chrétiennes
chrétiennes
91,182 corpus weight
- clairs
clairs
91,181 corpus weight
- clergé
clergé
91,180 corpus weight
- colin
colin
91,179 corpus weight
- coloniale
coloniale
91,178 corpus weight
What this shows « clairs » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clairs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \klɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « clairs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around clairs (IPA \klɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,820 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de clair.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for clairs, with forms such as "calirs", "cclairs", and "clairrs". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "clark", "Clara", "clips", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 clairs, spelled C-L-A-I-R-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de clair.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clairs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il estime que, pourvu que l’on ne touche pas aux principes, on peut accepter des compromis, mais en acculant les Britanniques à se montrer plus clairs.
Et l’on peut croire qu’il existe réellement « une raison qui s’ignore » de faits semblables, parce que si dans notre cas, le Moi subconscient du sensitif avait prévu l’accident fatal qui le menaçait en inférant l’avenir du présent, très libre comme il était de pourvoir à sa propre sûreté, il aurait pu télépathiser à sa femme l’événement en termes assez cl…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- calirs
- cclairs
- clairrs
- clairss
- claisr
- claris
- cliars
- cllairs
- lcairs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clairs - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).