Clarendon
The verdict
“Clarendon” is uncommon French (frequency #55,147 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,147
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Château (Clarendon Palace) aujourd’hui détruit, ayant appartenu à la couronne anglaise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clarendon · Clarendon · French
Clarendon · rank #55,147 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,147
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clamant
Nearest frequency peer: clamant (-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 « Clarendon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cintrée
cintrée
44,857 corpus weight
- circonspect…
circonspection
44,856 corpus weight
- clamant
clamant
44,855 corpus weight
- Clarendon
Clarendon
44,854 corpus weight
- cligne
cligne
44,853 corpus weight
- CMM
CMM
44,851 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Clarendon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Clarendon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Clarendon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Clarendon is uncommon French at frequency #55,147 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Château (Clarendon Palace) aujourd’hui détruit, ayant appartenu à la couronne anglaise.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Clarendon in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Clarendon, spelled C-L-A-R-E-N-D-O-N.
Definition
- 1Château (Clarendon Palace) aujourd’hui détruit, ayant appartenu à la couronne anglaise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Clarendon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon.
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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