clash
\klaʃ\
The verdict
“clash” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,377. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,377
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conflit ; dispute.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clash · clash · French
clash · rank #17,377 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,377
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH climatisation
Nearest frequency peer: climatisation (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « clash »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- CICE
CICE
82,627 corpus weight
- clandestine
clandestine
82,626 corpus weight
- clash
clash
82,624 corpus weight
- climatisati…
climatisation
82,623 corpus weight
- cod
cod
82,622 corpus weight
- Colbert
Colbert
82,621 corpus weight
What this shows « clash » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clash |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klaʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,377 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « clash »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around clash (IPA \klaʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,377 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Conflit ; dispute.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for clash, with forms such as "calsh", "cclash", and "clahs". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "clés", "clos", "clay", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 clash, spelled C-L-A-S-H.
Definition
- 1Conflit ; dispute.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clash appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La fin de la guerre froide a permis une floraison d'études sur le nouveau monde, le nouvel ordre international, l’universalisation du libéralisme ou le clash des civilisations. Les avions qui ont foncé sur les tours de New York dans le ciel bleu d'un beau matin de septembre ont jeté le doute sur tous ces exercices.
C’est l’un des paradoxes de l’époque : on se plaint des interviews consensuelles et aseptisées, mais dès qu’un échange est un peu tendu, il est considéré comme un clash, dès qu’une parole surnage, ça devient l’engueulade du siècle.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- calsh
- cclash
- clahs
- clashh
- classh
- cllash
- clsah
- lcash
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clash - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).