claudinette
The verdict
“claudinette” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom vernaculaire de la nivéole.
Corpus desk
Index FR-claudinette · claudinette · French
claudinette · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | claudinette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
claudinette is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for claudinette in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is claudinette, spelled C-L-A-U-D-I-N-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire de la nivéole.
- 2Nom vernaculaire de la jonquille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how claudinette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se renseignait auprès d'eux sur le jardinage mais ils attirèrent d'abord son attention sur des claudinettes, sorte de perce-neige, puis des pas-d'âne d'un jaune éclatant. Barbara cueillait ces brimborions et les lui mettait dans la main.
Lucrèce travaillait seule à son pupitre ; à côté d'elle, dans un vase bleu, un gros bouquet de ces narcisses jaunes, qu'on nomme dans le pays des claudinettes, répandait une molle odeur printanière et jetait une note gaie dans le sombre greffe enfumé.
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.