claquait
\kla.kɛ\
The verdict
“claquait” is uncommon French (frequency #80,047 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,047
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe claquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-claquait · claquait · French
claquait · rank #80,047 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,047
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH citronnier
Nearest frequency peer: citronnier (-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 « claquait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cilaos
Cilaos
19,958 corpus weight
- cimaises
cimaises
19,957 corpus weight
- cintrées
cintrées
19,956 corpus weight
- citronnier
citronnier
19,955 corpus weight
- claquait
claquait
19,954 corpus weight
- claw
claw
19,953 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « claquait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | claquait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kla.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « claquait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
claquait is uncommon French at frequency #80,047 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kla.kɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe claquer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for claquait in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct French form is claquait, spelled C-L-A-Q-U-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait 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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