claquette

/\kla.kɛt\/ noun

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\.

Key facts for claquette
PropertyValue
Headwordclaquette
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kla.kɛt\
Letters9
Frequency rank#74,661
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of claquette in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Sorte de crécelle.
  2. 2
    Sorte de livre formé de deux planchettes que l’on frappe l’une contre l’autre pour donner certains signaux.
  3. 3
    Ces deux planchettes qui permettent de coordonner le son et l’image, que l’on filme au début d’une prise de vue.
  4. 4
    Style de danse où les semelles frappant le sol contribuent aux percussions de la musique.
  5. 5
    Utiliser 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.
  6. 6
    Nu-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.
  7. 7
    Tong.
  8. 8
    Baguenaudier (Colutea arborescens ssp. gallica) ^([1]).
  9. 9
    Geste du gardien de but qui arrête un tir ou éloigne le danger de sa cage en claquant le ballon d’une main.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #74,661 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "claquette"?
"claquette" is spelled C-L-A-Q-U-E-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kla.kɛt\.
What does "claquette" mean?
As a noun, "claquette" means: Sorte de crécelle.
How do you pronounce "claquette"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "claquette" is \kla.kɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "claquette" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.