claqua
\kla.ka\
The verdict
“claqua” is uncommon French (frequency #87,468 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,468
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe claquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-claqua · claqua · French
claqua · rank #87,468 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,468
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clairons
Nearest frequency peer: clairons (-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 « claqua »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cireur
cireur
12,536 corpus weight
- civilisatio…
civilisationnel
12,535 corpus weight
- clairons
clairons
12,534 corpus weight
- claqua
claqua
12,533 corpus weight
- clarifiée
clarifiée
12,532 corpus weight
- claymore
claymore
12,531 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « claqua » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | claqua |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kla.ka\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « claqua » en français
Rare enough to double-check
claqua is uncommon French at frequency #87,468 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kla.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe claquer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for claqua in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is claqua, spelled C-L-A-Q-U-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe claquer.
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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