clapet
\kla.pɛ\
The verdict
“clapet” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,612. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,612
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de petite soupape qui se lève et se baisse par le moyen d’une simple charnière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clapet · clapet · French
clapet · rank #33,612 · 9 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,612
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cil
Nearest frequency peer: cil (-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 « clapet »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chromatique
chromatique
66,392 corpus weight
- châtiments
châtiments
66,391 corpus weight
- cil
cil
66,390 corpus weight
- clapet
clapet
66,389 corpus weight
- classent
classent
66,388 corpus weight
- climate
climate
66,387 corpus weight
What this shows « clapet » 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 | clapet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kla.pɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « clapet »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around clapet (IPA \kla.pɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,612 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for clapet, with forms such as "calpet", "cclapet", and "claept". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "clope", "Clare", "clopes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is clapet, spelled C-L-A-P-E-T.
Definition
- 1Sorte de petite soupape qui se lève et se baisse par le moyen d’une simple charnière.
- 2Bouche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clapet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Clapet de pompe.
En examinant vite fait la chaîne passée dans le clapet du verrou puis autour de l’étançon, il constata qu’à l’origine, elle n’avait pas été tendue à son maximum.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- calpet
- cclapet
- claept
- clapett
- clappet
- clapte
- cllapet
- clpaet
- lcapet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clapet - 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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).