Claudel
\klɔ.dɛl\
The verdict
“Claudel” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,516. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,516
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille, connu entre autres par Paul Claudel, écrivain français, Camille Claudel, sculptrice française, et Philippe Claudel, écrivain français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-claudel · Claudel · French
Claudel · rank #22,516 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,516
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH citent
Nearest frequency peer: citent (-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 « Claudel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chiffrement
chiffrement
77,488 corpus weight
- citent
citent
77,486 corpus weight
- Claudel
Claudel
77,485 corpus weight
- clientes
clientes
77,484 corpus weight
- Clint
Clint
77,483 corpus weight
- coachs
coachs
77,482 corpus weight
What this shows « Claudel » 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 | Claudel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \klɔ.dɛl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,516 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Claudel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Claudel (IPA \klɔ.dɛl\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #22,516 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille, connu entre autres par Paul Claudel, écrivain français, Camille Claudel, sculptrice française, et Philippe Claudel, écrivain français.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Claudel, with forms such as "caludel", "cclaudel", and "claduel". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "clause", "clavel", "clauses", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Claudel, spelled C-L-A-U-D-E-L.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille, connu entre autres par Paul Claudel, écrivain français, Camille Claudel, sculptrice française, et Philippe Claudel, écrivain français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Claudel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gide me disait : « Claudel est un monsieur qui croit qu’on peut aller au ciel en pullman ».
Elle se méfiait de Claudel que Zaza aimait parce qu’il l’aidait à concilier le ciel et la terre : « Tu ferais mieux de lire les Pères de l’Église », disait Mme Mabille avec humeur.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- caludel
- cclaudel
- claduel
- clauddel
- claudell
- claudle
- clauedl
- cllaudel
- cluadel
- lcaudel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Claudel - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).