claquemuré
French, adjective
claquemuré is spelled C-L-A-Q-U-E-M-U-R-É (10 letters) and appears about once in every 63 million words in written French, the 250,316th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Claquemuré is a French adjective meaning “shut-in, shut up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of claquemurer. Without its accent, claquemure is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est enfermé, emprisonné”.
What does claquemuré mean in English?
adjective
- 1
shut-in, shut up
- 2
caged, cooped up
- 3
isolated
- 4
enclosed
verb
- 1
past participle of claquemurer
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est enfermé, emprisonné.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of claquemuré
- claquemurée feminine
- claquemurés masculine plural
- claquemurées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is claquemuré in French?
claquemuré appears about once in every 63 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).