Clare
The verdict
“Clare” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,527. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,527
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bourgade située dans le district de St Edmundsbury, dans le Suffolk, en Angleterre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clare · Clare · French
Clare · rank #30,527 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,527
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH civilisée
Nearest frequency peer: civilisée (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Clare”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- circulez
circulez
69,477 corpus weight
- citez
citez
69,476 corpus weight
- civilisée
civilisée
69,475 corpus weight
- Clare
Clare
69,474 corpus weight
- clignotant
clignotant
69,473 corpus weight
- cohérents
cohérents
69,472 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Clare” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Clare |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #30,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “Clare” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Clare, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #30,527 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bourgade située dans le district de St Edmundsbury, dans le Suffolk, en Angleterre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Clare, with forms such as "cclare", "clarre", and "cllare". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "clé", "Cré", "cure", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Clare, spelled C-L-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Bourgade située dans le district de St Edmundsbury, dans le Suffolk, en Angleterre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Clare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Clare est aussi un Bourg d’Angleterre qui a titre de Duché, & qu’on appelait autrefois Clarence. Au moins les Seigneurs de ce Bourg portaient le titre de Ducs de Clarence.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cclare
- clarre
- cllare
- clrae
- lcare
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Clare - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Clare", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "Clare". Here's where to go from here.
- "Clare" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "clé". View pair
- 5 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #30,527 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "C" letter cohort. C–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.