claret
\kla.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“claret” is uncommon French (frequency #71,355 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,355
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom que les Anglais donnent à toute sorte de vins rouges, surtout aux vins de Bordeaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-claret · claret · French
claret · rank #71,355 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,355
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cimade
Nearest frequency peer: Cimade (-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 « claret »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chenapan
chenapan
28,651 corpus weight
- choucas
choucas
28,649 corpus weight
- Cimade
Cimade
28,647 corpus weight
- claret
claret
28,646 corpus weight
- clignotent
clignotent
28,645 corpus weight
- CNL
CNL
28,642 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « claret » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | claret |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kla.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « claret » en français
Rare enough to double-check
claret is uncommon French at frequency #71,355 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kla.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom que les Anglais donnent à toute sorte de vins rouges, surtout aux vins de Bordeaux.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for claret, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is claret, spelled C-L-A-R-E-T.
Definition
- 1Nom que les Anglais donnent à toute sorte de vins rouges, surtout aux vins de Bordeaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how claret appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je rêvais sous l’impression de cette histoire, et je comprenais que ce brillant vicomte de Brassard, la fleur non des pois, mais des plus fiers pavots rouges du dandysme, le buveur grandiose de claret, à la manière anglaise, fût comme un autre, un homme plus profond qu’il ne paraissait.
Pourtant il y a de nombreuses raisons physiologiques qui rendent le vin préférable au whisky: le whisky stimule immédiatement et cause aussitôt une sensation de chaleur dans l’estomac; le claret met excessivement longtemps à produire un effet analogue, bien que les deux liquides contiennent la même quantité d’alcool.
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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