claquement
\klak.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“claquement” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,299. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,299
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de claquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-claquement · claquement · French
claquement · rank #26,299 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,299
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Clooney
Nearest frequency peer: Clooney (+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 « claquement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chirurgical…
chirurgicales
73,705 corpus weight
- cintre
cintre
73,704 corpus weight
- claquement
claquement
73,702 corpus weight
- Clooney
Clooney
73,701 corpus weight
- codex
codex
73,700 corpus weight
- commentée
commentée
73,699 corpus weight
What this shows « claquement » 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 | claquement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klak.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #26,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « claquement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around claquement (IPA \klak.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,299 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for claquement, with forms such as "calquement", "cclaquement", and "claqeument". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "claquent", "classement", "craquement", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 claquement, spelled C-L-A-Q-U-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de claquer.
- 2Bruit produit par cette action.
- 3Choc mécanique d’une vague déferlante sur une structure ou un navire.
- 4Synonyme de clic.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how claquement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La friction du vent sous l’enveloppe produisait une série intermittente de rides et de petits claquements : on eût cru, en moins fort, le bruit du sillage à l’avant d’un bateau.
Puis, avant qu’il n’ait eu le temps de comprendre ce qui se passait, il vit sa femme ouvrir grand la porte de la chambre pour se propulser dans le salon à la vitesse d’un claquement d’élastique.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- calquement
- cclaquement
- claqeument
- claqquement
- claqueemnt
- claquemennt
- claquementt
- claquemetn
- claquemment
- claquemnet
- claqumeent
- clauqement
- cllaquement
- clqauement
- lcaquement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of claquement - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).