clamp
\klɑ̃p\
The verdict
“clamp” is uncommon French (frequency #73,838 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,838
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pince servant à maintenir ou à serrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clamp · clamp · French
clamp · rank #73,838 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,838
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clamait
Nearest frequency peer: clamait (-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 « clamp »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Claes
Claes
26,166 corpus weight
- clairsemée
clairsemée
26,165 corpus weight
- clamait
clamait
26,164 corpus weight
- clamp
clamp
26,163 corpus weight
- cochenille
cochenille
26,162 corpus weight
- cogite
cogite
26,161 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clamp » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clamp |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klɑ̃p\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #73,838 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clamp » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clamp is uncommon French at frequency #73,838 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \klɑ̃p\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pince servant à maintenir ou à serrer.".
clamp doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is clamp, spelled C-L-A-M-P.
Definition
- 1Pince servant à maintenir ou à serrer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clamp appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après les clamps de Henry, de Horteloup et de Wickham, nous devons citer la pince de Bazy, modifiée par M. Dardignac, qui a ajouté une lame métallique parallèle à l'un des mors et appelée protecteur mobile, le clamp de liège du professeur Delorme du Val de Grâce, et enfin le clamp du docteur Baissas dont l'usage nous parait assurer à l'opération le maximu…
La pièce enlevée, on aura donc dans la plaie un clamp sur le pylore, une pince sur le cholédoque, un clamp sur le duodénum et un clamp sur le pancréas.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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