clause
\kloz\
The verdict
“clause” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,164. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,164
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Disposition particulière faisant partie d’un traité, d’un contrat, d’un arrêté, d’une loi ou de tout autre acte public ou particulier, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clause · clause · French
clause · rank #7,164 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,164
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chirac
Nearest frequency peer: Chirac (-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 « clause »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chants
chants
92,840 corpus weight
- cherchait
cherchait
92,839 corpus weight
- Chirac
Chirac
92,838 corpus weight
- clause
clause
92,837 corpus weight
- cloud
cloud
92,836 corpus weight
- comble
comble
92,835 corpus weight
What this shows « clause » 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 | clause |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kloz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « clause »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around clause (IPA \kloz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,164 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Disposition particulière faisant partie d’un traité, d’un contrat, d’un arrêté, d’une loi ou de tout autre acte public ou particulier, etc.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for clause, with forms such as "caluse", "cclause", and "clasue". 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, "close", "clous", "creusé", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is clause, spelled C-L-A-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Disposition particulière faisant partie d’un traité, d’un contrat, d’un arrêté, d’une loi ou de tout autre acte public ou particulier, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clause appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme le tarif était peu élevé (1 fr. 25 par verso ou par 72 mots ), les solicitors allongèrent leurs actes en y insérant des clauses redondantes, afin de rendre suffisant le montant de leurs honoraires.
Il s’allongea de nouveau, s’ingéniant à rédiger des clauses testamentaires en faveur d’Edna, pour la plupart, […] et à stipuler divers menus legs, avec des codicilles de plus en plus fantasques et extravagants…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- caluse
- cclause
- clasue
- claues
- clausse
- cllause
- cluase
- lcause
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clause - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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