clar
[ˈkla]
The verdict
“clar” is uncommon French (frequency #82,793 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,793
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clair, limpide, net.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clar · clar · French
clar · rank #82,793 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,793
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH claustrophobe
Nearest frequency peer: claustrophobe (+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 « clar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cinabre
cinabre
17,212 corpus weight
- circuleront
circuleront
17,211 corpus weight
- citronniers
citronniers
17,210 corpus weight
- clar
clar
17,208 corpus weight
- claustropho…
claustrophobe
17,207 corpus weight
- cliquent
cliquent
17,206 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈkla] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #82,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clar is uncommon French at frequency #82,793 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈkla]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Clair, limpide, net.".
No misspelling variants are generated for clar in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is clar, spelled C-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1Clair, limpide, net.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Com evident experiència mostra, la debilitat de la nostra memòria, sotsmetent fàcilment a oblivió no solament los actes per longitud de temps envellits, mas encara los actes frescs de nostres dies, és estat doncs molt condecent, útil e expedient deduir en escrit les gestes e històries antigues dels homens forts e virtuosos, com sien espills molt clars, ex…
Pren-me'n axí com a l patró qu·en platga té sa gran nau e pens aver castell; vehent lo cel ésser molt clar e bell, creu fermament d'un·àncora ssats haja.
Synonyms
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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