claquage
\kla.kaʒ\
The verdict
“claquage” is uncommon French (frequency #62,862 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,862
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Déchirure musculaire conséquence d'un effort supérieur à ce que le muscle peut normalement fournir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-claquage · claquage · French
claquage · rank #62,862 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,862
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clapier
Nearest frequency peer: clapier (-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 « claquage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cistercienne
cistercienne
37,142 corpus weight
- claims
claims
37,141 corpus weight
- clapier
clapier
37,140 corpus weight
- claquage
claquage
37,139 corpus weight
- claquements
claquements
37,138 corpus weight
- cler
cler
37,137 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « claquage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | claquage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kla.kaʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,862 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « claquage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
claquage is uncommon French at frequency #62,862 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kla.kaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for claquage, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is claquage, spelled C-L-A-Q-U-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Déchirure musculaire conséquence d'un effort supérieur à ce que le muscle peut normalement fournir.
- 2Rupture de l'isolation entre deux conducteurs lorsque la tension atteint une valeur suffisante pour qu'un courant s'établisse au travers du diélectrique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how claquage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peacok avait renoncé aux Jeux, victime d’un claquage au mollet, mais Metcalfe, lui, était du voyage, bien déterminé à ne pas se laisser surclasser par plus jeune que lui.
Les premiers modèles traitant de l’endommagement des isolants au cours d’un claquage ont utilisé comme vecteurs d’énergie des électrons accélérés par un champ électrique.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).