clarine

\kla.ʁin\

/\kla.ʁin\/ noun

The verdict

“clarine” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
7
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sonnette pendue au cou des animaux qu’on fait paître dans les forêts ou à la montagne.

Corpus desk

Index FR-clarine · clarine · French

clarine · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "C" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for clarine
PropertyValue
Headwordclarine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kla.ʁin\
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « clarine » en français

clarinesiège au-delà des 100.000 formes les plus fréquentes du français, dans la traîne du lexique spécialisé ou peu usité.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

clarine is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kla.ʁin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sonnette pendue au cou des animaux qu’on fait paître dans les forêts ou à la montagne.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for clarine in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is clarine, spelled C-L-A-R-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sonnette pendue au cou des animaux qu’on fait paître dans les forêts ou à la montagne.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how clarine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le troupeau marchait en masse compacte, le sonnailler devant, et, près de lui, la brebis birane, faisant tinter leur clarine au milieu des bêlements.
  2. Une rumeur immense et douce monte dans le vent du soir, vient caresser les falaises stériles ! aumône aux terres sans amour : des bruissements d’eaux lointaines, la respiration des forêts, l’aboi rauque d’un chien, les vagues cuivrées de l’horloge et des milliers de clarines tintinnabulant aux flancs des herbages, ritournelle des troupeaux en marche vers…

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "clarine"?
"clarine" is spelled C-L-A-R-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kla.ʁin\.
What does "clarine" mean?
As a noun, "clarine" means: Sonnette pendue au cou des animaux qu’on fait paître dans les forêts ou à la montagne.
How do you pronounce "clarine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "clarine" is \kla.ʁin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "clarine" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list