clape
French, noun
clape is spelled C-L-A-P-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written French, the 100,007th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Clape is a French feminine noun meaning “food” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of claper. With an accent, clapé is a different word: “past participle of claper”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Cloche que l'on attachait au coup des mulets dans le sud de la France”.
What does clape mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineslangfood
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of claper
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cloche que l'on attachait au coup des mulets dans le sud de la France. 2. Vaisselle.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of clape
- clapée feminine
- clapés masculine plural
- clapées feminine plural
- clapes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is clape in French?
clape appears about once in every 9 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).