claquette
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#74,661
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
claquette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de crécelle. Pronounced \kla.kɛt\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | claquette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kla.kɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,661 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for claquette is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kla.kɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #74,661 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for claquette in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is claquette, spelled C-L-A-Q-U-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de crécelle.
- 2Sorte de livre formé de deux planchettes que l’on frappe l’une contre l’autre pour donner certains signaux.
- 3Ces deux planchettes qui permettent de coordonner le son et l’image, que l’on filme au début d’une prise de vue.
- 4Style de danse où les semelles frappant le sol contribuent aux percussions de la musique.
- 5Utiliser des subterfuges de forme dans un propos, comme de longues phrases ou des éléments convenus, pour faire du bruit et combler le silence lié à l'absence de fond.
- 6Nu-pied, ou mule qui ne retient pas le talon du pied, certains modèles ont une semelle en bois qui génèrent un bruit caractéristique quand on marche, d'où le nom.
- 7Tong.
- 8Baguenaudier (Colutea arborescens ssp. gallica) ^([1]).
- 9Geste du gardien de but qui arrête un tir ou éloigne le danger de sa cage en claquant le ballon d’une main.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #74,661 in French
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