claro
\ˈkla.ɾo\
The verdict
“claro” is uncommon French (frequency #77,357 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,357
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clair.
Corpus desk
Index FR-claro · claro · French
claro · rank #77,357 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,357
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clarinettiste
Nearest frequency peer: clarinettiste (-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 « claro »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cimenteries
cimenteries
22,647 corpus weight
- citerais
citerais
22,646 corpus weight
- clarinettis…
clarinettiste
22,645 corpus weight
- claro
claro
22,644 corpus weight
- clavicules
clavicules
22,643 corpus weight
- Clothilde
Clothilde
22,642 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « claro » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | claro |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈkla.ɾo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,357 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « claro » en français
Rare enough to double-check
claro is uncommon French at frequency #77,357 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈkla.ɾo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Clair.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for claro, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is claro, spelled C-L-A-R-O.
Definition
- 1Clair.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how claro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
-Mira, Sancho -respondió don Quijote-: si el consejo que me das de que me case es porque sea luego rey, en matando al gigante, y tenga cómodo para hacerte mercedes y darte lo prometido, hágote saber que sin casarme podré cumplir tu deseo muy fácilmente, porque yo sacaré de adahala, antes de entrar en la batalla, que, saliendo vencedor della, ya que no me…
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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