clairsemée
\klɛʁ.sə.me\
The verdict
“clairsemée” is uncommon French (frequency #73,836 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,836
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de clairsemé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clairsemee · clairsemée · French
clairsemée · rank #73,836 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,836
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Claes
Nearest frequency peer: Claes (-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 « clairsemée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- circonstanc…
circonstanciel
26,168 corpus weight
- citi
citi
26,167 corpus weight
- Claes
Claes
26,166 corpus weight
- clairsemée
clairsemée
26,165 corpus weight
- clamait
clamait
26,164 corpus weight
- clamp
clamp
26,163 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clairsemée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clairsemée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \klɛʁ.sə.me\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #73,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clairsemée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clairsemée is uncommon French at frequency #73,836 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \klɛʁ.sə.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de clairsemé.".
Zero misspellings are on record for clairsemée in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is clairsemée, spelled C-L-A-I-R-S-E-M-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de clairsemé.
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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