clarine
\kla.ʁin\
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clarine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kla.ʁin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clarine » en français
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
- 1Sonnette pendue au cou des animaux qu’on fait paître dans les forêts ou à la montagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clarine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le troupeau marchait en masse compacte, le sonnailler devant, et, près de lui, la brebis birane, faisant tinter leur clarine au milieu des bêlements.
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.