clame
\klam\
The verdict
“clame” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,947. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,947
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Outillage de maintien d’une pièce mécanique pendant son usinage ou sa modification.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clame · clame · French
clame · rank #30,947 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,947
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chung
Nearest frequency peer: chung (-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 « clame »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- choice
choice
69,057 corpus weight
- CHR
CHR
69,056 corpus weight
- chung
chung
69,055 corpus weight
- clame
clame
69,054 corpus weight
- clear
clear
69,053 corpus weight
- Coccinelle
Coccinelle
69,052 corpus weight
What this shows « clame » 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 | clame |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klam\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #30,947 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « clame »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around clame (IPA \klam\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,947 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Outillage de maintien d’une pièce mécanique pendant son usinage ou sa modification.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for clame, with forms such as "cclame", "claem", and "clamme". 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, "clé", "clan", "come", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is clame, spelled C-L-A-M-E.
Definition
- 1Outillage de maintien d’une pièce mécanique pendant son usinage ou sa modification.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how clame appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le forgeron ou marteleur, fig. 1, est occupé à étirer l'encrénée A B, qu'il tient de la main gauche, avec les tenailles à coquille, serrées par une clame ou anneau, saisissant alternativement les branches de la tenaille près la cheville qui les assemble.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cclame
- claem
- clamme
- cllame
- clmae
- lcame
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clame - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "clame"?
What does "clame" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "clame"?
How do you pronounce "clame"?
What language does "clame" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "clame", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).