clap de fin
\klap də fɛ̃\
The verdict
“clap de fin” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Clap de fin de prise quand il n’a pas pu être donné au début.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clap de fin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klap də fɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “clap de fin” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for clap de fin is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \klap də fɛ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for clap de fin in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is clap de fin, spelled C-L-A-P- -D-E- -F-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Clap de fin de prise quand il n’a pas pu être donné au début.
- 2Arrêt.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-L-A-P- -D-E- -F-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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